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

Philip Pullman

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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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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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We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
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Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
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What is worth having is worth working for.
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...because where we are is always the most important place.
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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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Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
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I don't profess any religion I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.
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One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
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Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
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Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck write anyway.
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I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.
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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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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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Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
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Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.
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Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
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You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.
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And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.
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