Terry Pratchett Quotes

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer.

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

I decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is.

I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.