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> [One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/one-curious-thing-about-growing-up-is-that-you-don-t-only-move/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/tolkien-who-created-this-marvellous-vehicle-doesn-t-go-anywhere-in-it/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/a-lot-of-modernism-does-seem-to-come-out-of-a-fear-of-being-thought/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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## Other authors on Backwards

## More by Philip Pullman

> [The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/the-state-of-mind-which-i-put-myself-when-i-tell-a-story-is-one-in/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/religion-grants-its-adherents-malign-intoxicating-and-morally/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/we-don-t-need-lists-of-rights-and-wrongs-tables-of-do-s-and-don-ts-we/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/i-have-stolen-ideas-from-every-book-i-have-ever-read/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/all-the-stories-of-the-bible-that-i-know-came-to-me-first-from-my/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/what-i-do-say-is-that-i-can-write-verse-and-that-the-writing-of-verse/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/writing-is-tyranny-but-reading-is-democracy/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/middlemarch-is-a-novel-that-is-diminished-by-being-put-on-the-screen/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/i-have-maintained-a-passionate-interest-in-education-which-leads-me/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/and-think-what-worrying-does-has-anyone-ever-added-a-single-hour-to/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/the-question-authors-get-asked-more-than-any-other-is-where-do-you/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/we-are-all-subject-to-the-fates-but-we-must-all-act-as-if-we-are-not/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/lonely-i-don-t-know-they-tell-me-this-is-cold-i-don-t-know-what-cold/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/just-finished-secrecy-truly-enthralling-both-as-a-love-story-and-as-a/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

> [“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/as-auden-is-believed-to-have-said-no-poem-saved-a-single-jew-from-the/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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