Terry Pratchett Quotes

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

I think that children are very smart.

One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

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.