Civilized Quote by Philip Pullman

The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome…

— Philip Pullman

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…

— Philip Pullman

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…

— Philip Pullman

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

— Philip Pullman

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

— Philip Pullman

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…

— Philip Pullman

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

— Philip Pullman

“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we…

— Philip Pullman

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well…

— Philip Pullman

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

— Philip Pullman

“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of…

— Philip Pullman

“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.…

— Philip Pullman