Terry Pratchett Quotes

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting down one day and writing one. You have to learn how to captivate a reader. Right? And I don't mean you have to go to school for it. But if you're - if you pay attention, you can learn it by reading books. And so I feel like I learned a lot by reading books.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.