Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from… — 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
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact… — 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
