I've always felt that what I have going for me is ... -Terry Pratchett

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Terry Pratchett Quotes to Explore

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own inner...

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope....

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page....

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to he...

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather...

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this....

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds....

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read any...

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for tel...

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like th...

Imagination Quotes to Explore

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimula...

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of reader...

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions....

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim....

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to f...

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get m...

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite ...

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but ...

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work....

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 y...