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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 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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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same
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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
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We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
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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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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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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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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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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.
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You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
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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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Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.
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I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.
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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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For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.
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Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
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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.
Philip Pullman
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
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