Terry Pratchett Quote
This ain’t right, you know. She’s the one who ought to rule, fair enough. And you used magic to help her this far, and that’s all right. But it stops right here. It’s up to her what happens next. You can’t make things right by magic. You can only stop making them wrong.Mrs. Gogol pulled herself up to her full, impressive height. Who’s you to say what I can and can’t do here?We’re her godmothers, said Granny.That’s right, said Nanny Ogg.We’ve got a wand, too, said Magrat.But you hate godmothers, Mistress Weatherwax, said Mrs. Gogol.We’re the other kind, said Granny. We’re the kind that gives people what they know they really need, not what we think they ought to want.
This ain’t right, you know. She’s the one who ought to rule, fair enough. And you used magic to help her this far, and that’s all right. But it stops right here. It’s up to her what happens next. You can’t make things right by magic. You can only stop making them wrong.Mrs. Gogol pulled herself up to her full, impressive height. Who’s you to say what I can and can’t do here?We’re her godmothers, said Granny.That’s right, said Nanny Ogg.We’ve got a wand, too, said Magrat.But you hate godmothers, Mistress Weatherwax, said Mrs. Gogol.We’re the other kind, said Granny. We’re the kind that gives people what they know they really need, not what we think they ought to want.
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About Terry Pratchett
Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001, he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.
In December 2007 Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK, ARUK), filmed three television programmes chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron of ARUK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66.