I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — 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
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky… — 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
Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the… — 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
