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… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I think we need to tell each other everything we’ve found out. And it’ll take us a good long time, and we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others? — 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
“Was there only one world, after all, that spent its time dreaming of others?” — 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
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out… — 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
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not might' reach the head but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. Also: We need stories… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, ‘Come along o’ me, it’s time.” — 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
“Waste of time," said the leper. "There's a dozen or more beggars who come here every day, pretending to be cripples, hiring… — 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
