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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck write anyway.

Philip Pullman

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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.
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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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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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You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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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.
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D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.
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Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
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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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The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
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If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?
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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
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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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All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?
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'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
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All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
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I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
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The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
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