Terry Pratchett Quotes

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.