Philip Pullman

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

— Philip Pullman

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any…

— Philip Pullman

For a human being, nothing comes naturally. We have to learn everything we do.

— Philip Pullman

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

— Philip Pullman

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the…

— Philip Pullman

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

— Philip Pullman

I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call…

— Philip Pullman

“All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable.”

— 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

“consciousness is a perfectly normal property of matter, like mass or anbaric charge; that there is a field of consciousness which pervades…

— Philip Pullman

On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping…

— Philip Pullman

“Was there only one world, after all, that spent its time dreaming of others?”

— Philip Pullman

“To be sure, there’s a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re a…

— Philip Pullman

“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

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

— Philip Pullman

I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out…

— Philip Pullman

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

— Philip Pullman

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

— Philip Pullman

“The terms of this combat are these. If Iofur Raknison kills me, then he will be king forever, safe from challenge or…

— Philip Pullman

I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.

— Philip Pullman

When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some…

— Philip Pullman

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser…

— Philip Pullman

“when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.”

— Philip Pullman

I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.

— Philip Pullman

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