Terry Pratchett Quote
Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard.Er…aren’t you supposed to do that sort of thing by magic, dear? said her mother, who’d never really got the hang of what witchcraft was all about.No, Mum, I’m supposed not to, said Tiffany, still scrubbing.But can’t you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then?The trouble is getting the magic to understand what dirt is, said Tiffany, scrubbing hard at a stain. I heard of a witch over in Escrow who got it wrong and ended up losing the entire floor and her sandals and nearly a toe.Mrs. Aching backed away. I thought you just had to wave your hands about, she mumbled nervously.That works, said Tiffany, but only if you wave them about on the floor with a scrubbing brush.
Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard.Er…aren’t you supposed to do that sort of thing by magic, dear? said her mother, who’d never really got the hang of what witchcraft was all about.No, Mum, I’m supposed not to, said Tiffany, still scrubbing.But can’t you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then?The trouble is getting the magic to understand what dirt is, said Tiffany, scrubbing hard at a stain. I heard of a witch over in Escrow who got it wrong and ended up losing the entire floor and her sandals and nearly a toe.Mrs. Aching backed away. I thought you just had to wave your hands about, she mumbled nervously.That works, said Tiffany, but only if you wave them about on the floor with a scrubbing brush.
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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 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 a television programme chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron for ARUK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66.