I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can… — 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
Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — 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
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
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
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since… — 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
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we… — 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
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into… — 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
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went… — 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