The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went… — 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
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed… — 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
“I was aching—all my body was aching for him, and I could tell he felt the same—and we were both almost too… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“And at half past nine in the evening at that restaurant table in Portugal,” Mary continued, “someone gave me a piece of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“...But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP! — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“was such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“As Mary said that, Lyra felt something strange happen to her body. She found a stirring at the roots of her hair:… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should… — 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
“And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew… — 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
