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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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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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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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All good things pass away.
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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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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
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But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.
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I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.
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The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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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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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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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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Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
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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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But we can trust him Roger, I swear, she said with a final effort,Because he's Will.
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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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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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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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Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
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