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When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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Norfolk
Sir Philip Pullman
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
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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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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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One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like to make a plan before I've written a story. I find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. Unless I'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.
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We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
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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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When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.
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The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
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All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.
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And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.
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A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.
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It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, Make this a feminist story! I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.
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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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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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Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
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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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