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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, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.
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Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
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When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.
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But we can trust him Roger, I swear, she said with a final effort,Because he's Will.
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Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
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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 get them, if the good books won't supply them.
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Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.
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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 dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.
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...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they merged–although they would never truly touch.
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And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
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There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
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Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
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It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck write anyway.
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Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
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A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.
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