Stories Quotes by Philip Pullman

“Tell them stories.”

— Philip Pullman

“Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”

— Philip Pullman

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

— Philip Pullman

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

— Philip Pullman

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job…

— Philip Pullman

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to…

— Philip Pullman

The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And…

— Philip Pullman

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many,…

— Philip Pullman

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

— Philip Pullman

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

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

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job…

— Philip Pullman

The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for…

— Philip Pullman

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine…

— Philip Pullman

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we…

— Philip Pullman

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any…

— Philip Pullman

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

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that…

— Philip Pullman

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

One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write.…

— Philip Pullman

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.…

— Philip Pullman

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of…

— Philip Pullman

“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

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.…

— Philip Pullman

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

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

— Philip Pullman

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

— Philip Pullman

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than…

— Philip Pullman

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

— Philip Pullman

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read…

— Philip Pullman

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

Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what…

— Philip Pullman

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in…

— Philip Pullman

My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling…

— Philip Pullman

“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and…

— Philip Pullman

The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try…

— Philip Pullman

I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,…

— Philip Pullman