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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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All good things pass away.
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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 he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
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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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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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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
Philip Pullman
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
Philip Pullman
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
Philip Pullman
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.
Philip Pullman
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.
Philip Pullman
Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
Philip Pullman
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
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You don't read it in the sense of reading a message it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.
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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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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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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 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.
Philip Pullman
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
Philip Pullman
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
Philip Pullman
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.
Philip Pullman
