"If you can't think of what to write,……" — Philip Pullman
"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."
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Philip Pullman
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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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I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk,…
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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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