Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this...
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a bri...
Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.
As the eye of narrative drew back from the coffin on its stand, two things happened. One happened comparatively slowly, and this was Vargo's realisation that he never recalled the coffin having a pill...
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.
Are we entirely ready, sir? said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means We are not entirely ready, sir.We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus,...
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has bee...
And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?Can't girls seek their fortune?I think they're supposed...
And then there was the headless horseman! said Tiffany. He had no head!Well, that is the major job qualification, said the toad.
And then she woke up and it was all a dream.' It was just about the worst ending you could have to any story.
And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they’re like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.
And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.
And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states have agreed to work together to heal the problems of another au...
And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...
A VERY ACCURATE ONE. YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON’T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE...
This is the room where the future pours into the past via the pinch of now.
All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?Yeah, said Rincewind. ...Luters, I expect.
. . had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth.
First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will hav...