I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition. — 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
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 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
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was 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
