When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Theatre is one of those things that children will love if they're helped to get there to see it. No child will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The children will come to no harm." "Except for the older ones. Like that poor kid down there." "Mr. Scoresby, that is… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Serafina said, 'Have you been married, Mr Scoresby? Have you any children?' 'No, ma'am, I have no child, though I would have… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Just tell me before you go," said Lee, "because I won't be easy till I know. What side I'm fighting for I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There is a correspondence between the microcosm and the macrocosm! The stars are alive, child! Did you know that? Everything out there… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And no one in a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
