Rob Wilkins > Quotes

“Terry didn’t really do deference around famous people. I was once in a position, in Dublin, to introduce him to Bono from U2, explaining, as I did so, that Bono owned the hotel we were standing in. ‘Ah, good,’ Terry said to Bono. ‘Can you get me a milkshake?’ Which he did.”
― Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

“William Pratchett’s last words on this earth were an anguished cry of, ‘I haven’t had my custard yet.”
― Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

“... he described himself in interviews as 'hallucinating gently for a living.”
― Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

“AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black dessert under the endless night.

THE END.”
― Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

“So what was this place in which people were rewarded for working out the answer the teacher wanted them to give, rather than the right answer?”
― Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

“I do not know what solace she found in the tiny, stricken face,’ Terry said, ‘but now I see the face of a humble carpenter who was moved to tell people to be kind to one another – the golden rule of so many wise men – and for his pains was tortured to death by a tyrant at the behest of zealots. Perhaps the message may be to ignore tyrants and tumble zealots.”
― Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography