Philip Pullman Quotes

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• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in…
• For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
• I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there,…
• If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is…
• We have to learn everything we do.
• And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was…
• Once upon a time lasts forever
• I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered…
• I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.
• What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than…
• My books are about killing God.
• What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for…
• My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing
• I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me…
• For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music,…
• She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying,…
• No one has the right to live without being shocked.
• True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all…
• We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

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