Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — 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
