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Book Quotes by Philip Pullman
- 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…
- My books are about killing God.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy…
- People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates…
- There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to…
- There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
- I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
- After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
- If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a…
- I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character…
- Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right…
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- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda
- That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough… — John Green