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
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
There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — 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
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
It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me.… — 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
