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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.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.
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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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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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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
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A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
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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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You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.
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The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.
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We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
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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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That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
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I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
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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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There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
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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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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
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We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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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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