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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.
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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
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For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence
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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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And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
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If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.
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...because where we are is always the most important place.
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Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
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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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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
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