Books Quotes by Philip Pullman

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

— Philip Pullman

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

— Philip Pullman

My books are about killing God.

— Philip Pullman

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

— Philip Pullman

“I've just read it so much, it memorized itself.”

— Philip Pullman

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

— Philip Pullman

“when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.”

— Philip Pullman

I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

— Philip Pullman

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

— Philip Pullman

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God… My books are about killing God.

— Philip Pullman

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

— Philip Pullman

Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up…

— Philip Pullman

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt…

— Philip Pullman

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

— Philip Pullman

“I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust. “It’s going very well and it will…

— Philip Pullman

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which…

— Philip Pullman

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises…

— Philip Pullman

“Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it...…

— Philip Pullman

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read…

— Philip Pullman

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,…

— Philip Pullman

“Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey’s Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the…

— Philip Pullman

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine…

— Philip Pullman

“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding…

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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and…

— Philip Pullman

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I…

— Philip Pullman

Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you…

— Philip Pullman

“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a…

— Philip Pullman

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the…

— Philip Pullman

“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult…

— 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…

— Philip Pullman

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.…

— Philip Pullman

“This is the thing that takes me longest of all when I'm beginning a novel, to work out what the limits are,…

— Philip Pullman

“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book…

— Philip Pullman

“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the…

— Philip Pullman

“one thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing…

— 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…

— Philip Pullman

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page…

— Philip Pullman

“The Subtle Knife is the second part of the trilogy that began with The Golden Compass. That first book was set in…

— Philip Pullman

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd…

— Philip Pullman

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to…

— Philip Pullman