Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Tell them stories. That’s what we didn’t know. All this time, and we never knew! But they need the truth. That’s what… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.'… — 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
“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The ultimate source is probably the tendency in some of us, part of our psychological inheritance from our far-distant ancestors, the tendency… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories. — 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
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!" "You think things have to be possible? Things have… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Who are you?" the woman said at last. "Lyra Silver—" "No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from… — 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
“I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some… — 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
