And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these… — 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
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — 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
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. — 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
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