One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them… — 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… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“her.” “That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's… — 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… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I… — 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
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
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It’s important to put it like that: not “I am a writer,” but rather “I write stories.” If you put the emphasis… — 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
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — 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
“Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey’s Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the duty of… — 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
![“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult readers who do deal in straightforward stories find themselves sidelined into a genre such as crime or science fiction, where no one expects…” quote by Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a7/philip-pullman-525_books_i-n-adult-literary-fiction-stories-are-t_1804165.jpg)
