It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called life.Terry Pratchett Copy and paste the code showing below anywhere on your website where you want to show this quote. It’s hard to think that the Discworld, with its wizards and witches, trolls and dwarves, vampires and anthropomorphic personifications will never again grow under the watch of the man who gave it life.ĭiscworld has lost everything that made it magical and charming and hilarious and heartbreaking and our world has lost just a little piece of the same thing.Embed this quote text, quote image or both quote and text on your website, blog or BB Forums using the codes below. I have always considered it my very greatest ambition as a writer that my name could one day be mentioned in comparison to the works of Roald Dahl and Terry Pratchett, even if it’s only to say that I’m a poor man’s version of either. I cannot say for certain that I wouldn’t want to be a writer if I hadn’t read his work, but I know very much that I would have a different answer to the question, “What type of writer would you like to be?”. In just over forty Discworld novels, (with number 41 to be released later this year), Terry Pratchett undoubtedly changed my life. Terry Pratchett wrote with a fondness and respect for his own characters and utter irreverence for silly little things like money, religion, politics, justice, love and history. He gave his worlds and his characters such life, such incredible personalities that, as a young boy, they often felt more real than the people around me. That is the smallest part of what made Terry Pratchett a wizard. () It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. Terry Pratchett made his readers feel sorry for Death, want to give Death a big warm hug and tell him that he was doing alright, really. Terry Pratchett > Quotes > Quotable Quote. He taught me that Nobby Nobbs was disqualified from the human race for shoving and he taught me that everything would be okay as long as you have your potato. As Terry Pratchett said, It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. He taught me that Time could take a lover and that thin soles on your shoes mean you can walk home with your eyes closed. He taught me that “Ooook” and “SQUEAK” could be powerful, meaningful statements. His incredibly clever, cheeky writing taught me that writing could be funny and it could be fantastic and that neither of these things meant that it had to be silly or childish. Terry Pratchett is my hero and has been since my childhood. Death had a house which by and large seemed to be in the shape of an ordinary building until you realised that crossing it can take anywhere from an hour to an instant and a swing that Death built for his granddaughter in the garden, where Death rather messed up in his placement of the swing but easily fixed it by removing that pesky portion of the tree between the roots and the branches. Terry Pratchett It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it. Terry Pratchett When in doubt, choose to live. Terry gave us a Death who had the best of intentions but didn’t quite have the knack for life. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. Terry wrote a version of Death that had spent so long in the grim-reaperesque shape of a human that he had started to think like one, or at least a very good approximation. Inside its pages, Terry wrote about Death, not as the bitter force we see around us, but as a kindly and tragic man, rather like a confused grandfather. It was my first Discworld novel and there really was no looking back. But it was something far more precious than that. Mort was published in 1987 and was the fourth novel to be part of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. Though I was fairly familiar with the idea of not judging a book by its cover, it already seemed that there might be something worth discovering on its pages. The cover looked frightfully dramatic with a rather detailed painting of a gangly man, a grey haired woman, a wizard, what looked like a queen and the grim reaper, all atop a great white horse running through the sky and upsetting a small elephant on the ground. When I was a young boy, I had the phenomenal fortune to come across a copy of Mort in a bookshop with my parents. Today is the day that Terry Pratchett left this world behind. I will always remember the man who taught me otherwise, though today March 12 th 2015, it feels very cruel indeed. That is true, it’s called life.” –Terry Pratchett, The Last Continentĭeath, and this will hardly be news to anyone, is a most cruel, uncaring part of this world. “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die.
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