I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd… — 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
“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
“I lied and lied, Asriel… Let’s not wait too long, I can’t bear it… We won’t live, will we? We won’t survive… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I guess you are,” said Lee. “You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the… — 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. It might happen… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Everything about her in that moment was soft, and that was one of his favorite memories later on--her tense grace made tender… — philip pullman Copy Share Image
“But if we get education right... it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins nowhere else but in delight, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Well now,” the Master went on. “We must think about your future, Lyra.” His words made her shiver. She gathered herself and… — 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 in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Out of the little grove, away from the baffled Spectres, out of the valley, past the mighty form of his old companion… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a… — 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
