#gh

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#basic #bloody #called #concepts #fact

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#author #being #both #funeral #i

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #done #educate #ever #everything

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#advice #approximately #because #bond #book

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#care #does #enough #in the beginning #make

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right. ↗

— Otto Preminger

#each #get #her #lassie #like

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed. ↗

— Hugo Pratt

#fighter #i #often #real #up

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#even #everywhere #extends #father #god

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#feelings #need #relationships #show #soft