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
Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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
He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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 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 think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything,… — 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
D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s… — 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
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
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 range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and… — 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
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