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The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.
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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The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
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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.
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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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Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
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She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
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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 had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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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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Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
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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.
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Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.
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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
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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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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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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
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