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When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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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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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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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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Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.
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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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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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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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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
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We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
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That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
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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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'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
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I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.
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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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Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
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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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