Philip Pullman Quotes

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• She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
• The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual…
• If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.
• There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
• Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
• Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.
• And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels…
• There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would…
• Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
• Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
• When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.
• Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
• Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
• There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as…
• But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know
• All things from the north are devilish.
• 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 forgotten,…
• Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I…
• One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents'…
• Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

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