What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best… — 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
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — 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
“I have said that His Dark Materials is not fantasy but stark realism, and my reason for this is to emphasise what… — 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
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
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
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.… — 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
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
Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding… — 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
“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the… — 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
“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
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
