One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
Terry PratchettIt had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.
Terry PratchettAll he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
Terry PratchettHe was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry PratchettI [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ยญbefore the disease mounted its last ยญattack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ยญversion of the "Brompton cocktail" some ยญhelpful medic could supply. And with ยญThomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.
Terry Pratchett