Best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66 "surrounded by his family, with his cat sleeping on his bed".
Sir Terry Pratchett 'never set out to write literature'
Sir Terry Pratchett once said he "never set out to write literature - but I've had a lot of fun in the past 25 years".
The best-selling author, famous for his Discworld series, was knighted for his services to literature in 2009, two years after being told he had early onset Alzheimer's Disease.
ITV News Correspondent Richard Pallot reports:
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Sir Terry Pratchett in quotes
As the literary world mourns the death of the best-selling author, here are some of his most memorable quotes.
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Pratchett sold more than 70m books
Sir Terry Pratchett sold more than 70 million books in a prolific career and became the UK's biggest-selling author in the 1990s.