Philip Pullman

A murderer was a worthy companion.

— Philip Pullman

Do not lie to the Scholar.

— Philip Pullman

All good things pass away.

— Philip Pullman

“because he's Will”

— Philip Pullman

Once upon a time lasts forever

— Philip Pullman

“The Musicians of Bremen”

— Philip Pullman

“Tell them stories.”

— Philip Pullman

My books are about killing God.

— Philip Pullman

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

— Philip Pullman

“But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.”

— Philip Pullman

What is worth having is worth working for.

— Philip Pullman

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

— Philip Pullman

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

— Philip Pullman

“When you're young, you do think that things last forever,”

— Philip Pullman

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

— Philip Pullman

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

— Philip Pullman

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God… My books are about killing God.

— Philip Pullman

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

“I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.”

— Philip Pullman

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

— Philip Pullman

“Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.”

— Philip Pullman

“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, ‘Come along o’ me, it’s time.”

— Philip Pullman

“By the light of a candle, he composed a letter, saying everything as briefly as possible:”

— Philip Pullman

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

— Philip Pullman

“You’ll take some Tokay?” said Hallgrimsson, sitting down after looking through the window along the rain-swept street, and then pulling the curtains…

— Philip Pullman

“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

“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom…

— Philip Pullman

“I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust. “It’s going very well and it will…

— Philip Pullman

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening…

— Philip Pullman

Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed…

— Philip Pullman

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all…

— Philip Pullman

To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to…

— Philip Pullman

“Out of the little grove, away from the baffled Spectres, out of the valley, past the mighty form of his old companion…

— Philip Pullman

“And at half past nine in the evening at that restaurant table in Portugal,” Mary continued, “someone gave me a piece of…

— Philip Pullman

“And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew…

— Philip Pullman

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put…

— Philip Pullman

“I love him so much, Will!" she managed to whisper shakily. "And he looked old! He looked hungry and old and sad...…

— Philip Pullman

“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, come along o' me, it's time. It might happen…

— Philip Pullman

“I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll…

— Philip Pullman

“[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