About Terry Pratchett:
Sir Terence David John is best known for his Discworld series of about 40 volumes. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.
The gods were there to do the duties of a megaphone, because who else would people listen to?
Terry PratchettThe public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things
Terry Pratchett