She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford… — 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
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
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
And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment,… — 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
