“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, ‘Come along o’ me, it’s time.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Whenever you turn your head, your deaths dodge behind you. Wherever you look, they hide. They hide in a teacup. Or in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“She did not move. Nor did she scream or faint; her only actions were to draw back the hem of her dress… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, come along o' me, it's time. It might happen… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Well, this is a mystery,” said Farder Coram, “and I’m glad I lived long enough to see it. To go into the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll understand it later: men… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“When we were alive, they told us that when we died we'd go to heaven. And they said that heaven was a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“She turned away. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share
“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both. — Philip Pullman Copy Share
“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
