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Philip Pullman Quotes
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. - Philip Pullman Quotes
And before Id got to the end of the first paragraph, Id come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and its this: where am I telling it from? - Philip Pullman Quotes
Argue with anything else, but dont argue with your own nature. - Philip Pullman Quotes
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. Id spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldnt matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. - Philip Pullman Quotes
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. - Philip Pullman Quotes
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but thats a high title to claim. - Philip Pullman Quotes
For that reason you cant 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 youre writing, and for that you need silence. - Philip Pullman Quotes
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and theyd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! - Philip Pullman Quotes
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. - Philip Pullman Quotes
If you cant think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when youve finished the three pages, dont write it; itll be that much easier to get going next day. - Philip Pullman Quotes
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. - Philip Pullman Quotes
My only real claim to anyones attention lies in my writing. - Philip Pullman Quotes
One curious thing about growing up is that you dont only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents and grandparents lives come to you. - Philip Pullman Quotes
Thats 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. - Philip Pullman Quotes
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. - Philip Pullman Quotes
We dont need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and donts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. - Philip Pullman Quotes
What I couldnt help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than Id learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. - Philip Pullman Quotes
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. - Philip Pullman Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Adam Against Anything Argue Bang Before Begin
Cannot Come Dont Else Equation First From
Fundamental Include Like Manners Minus Nature Numbers
Paragraph Problem Root Slap Square Still Story
Telling That Things This Today Troubles Where
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