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
You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what… — 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
