Terry Pratchett Quotes About Reading

• If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moving, Reading, Writing

• Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Imagination, Upset

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Dec 07, 2016

• Mi consejo es el siguiente. Por el amor de Dios, no escribas un libro que sea adecuado para un niño de 12 años, porque los niños que leen que tienen 12 años están leyendo libros para adultos. Leí todos los libros de James Bond cuando tenía unos 11 años, que era aproximadamente el momento adecuado para leer libros de James Bond.

  Terry Pratchett

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  "Terry Pratchett: 'Si hubiera sabido lo que una enfermedad cerebral progresiva podía hacer por tu perfil de relaciones públicas, quizá me habría hecho una antes'". Entrevista con Deborah Orr, www.independent.co.uk. 29 de noviembre de 2008.

• People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Libro, Lectura, Personas

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.234, Random House

• The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.152, Random House

• She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Knitting, Romance

• That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Reading, Years

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.66, Random House

• El Bibliotecario reflexionó un rato. Así que... un enano y un troll. Prefería ambas especies a los humanos. Para empezar, ninguno de los dos era un gran lector. El Bibliotecario estaba, por supuesto, muy a favor de la lectura en general, pero los lectores en particular le ponían de los nervios. Había algo, bueno, sacrílego en la forma en que no paraban de coger libros de las estanterías y desgastar las palabras leyéndolos. Le gustaba la gente que amaba y respetaba los libros, y la mejor manera de hacerlo, en opinión del Bibliotecario, era dejarlos en los estantes donde la Naturaleza pretendía que estuvieran.

  Terry Pratchett

  Libro, Lectura, Enanos

• For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Book, Talking

• Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

  Terry Pratchett

  País, Profesor, Enseñanza

• Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Good Things

  Fuente: bobneilson.org

• I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

• Descubrí la fantasía y la ciencia ficción cuando tenía unos 10 años, y no leí otra cosa durante unos tres años. Se me acabaron todos los libros que había para leer en la biblioteca. Me entusiasmaba leer cosas que me llevaran a otros lugares.

  Terry Pratchett

  Libro, Lectura, Años

  Fuente: www.theguardian.com

• Fueron la ciencia ficción y la fantasía las que me llevaron a la lectura, y los escritores de ciencia ficción en particular tienen mentes de rata de carga. Introducen todo tipo de temas e ideas interesantes en sus libros, así que para mí fue un salto muy corto pasar de los géneros de fantasía y ciencia ficción al folclore, la mitología, la historia antigua y la filosofía. No leí filosofía porque me propusiera convertirme en filósofo; la leí porque me parecía interesante.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

• You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Writing, Cake

• I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Bankers, Lines

• Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Adults, Horror

  Fuente: bobneilson.org

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