"I don't know where my ideas come from,……" — Philip Pullman
"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, they go away again."
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176 Quotes by Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman has 176 quotes on this site.
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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…
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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against…
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We have to learn everything we do.
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And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of…
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Once upon a time lasts forever
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that…
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I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North…
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write…
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My books are about killing God.
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is…
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing
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More Desk Quotes
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk…
— Pearl S. Buck
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
— John le Carre
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been…
— Fred Allen
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I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one…
— Chris Christie
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We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we…
— Unknown Author
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across…
— Grantland Rice
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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I…
— Robert Bloch
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My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are…
— Phil Jackson
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I…
— Margaret Mahy
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party…
— Barbara Walters
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