Terry Pratchett Quotes

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.