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Stories Quotes by Philip Pullman
- Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
- 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.
- I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
- 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…
- Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what…
- 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…
- After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
- All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They…
- Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
- Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
- 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…
- Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he…
- For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not…
- Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe