Philip Pullman Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

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

  Philip Pullman

  Writing, Thinking, Luck

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Fighting, Feelings, Church

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Want Something, Risk

  14 Copy quote

• We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Rights, Silence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

• There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Book, Adults

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Tolerance, Truth Is, Form

  12 Copy quote

• Once upon a time' lasts forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Forever, Once Upon A Time, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Symbolism, Philosopher

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

  5 Copy quote

• Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

  Philip Pullman

  Needs, Stories, True Story

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

• I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.

  Philip Pullman

  Ignorance, Thinking, Sight

  7 Copy quote

• This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Book, Writing

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

  6 Copy quote

• The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Ideas, Soap Bubbles

  Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.233, Random House

  19 Copy quote

• You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

  Philip Pullman

  Alive

  4 Copy quote

• We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

  Philip Pullman

  Stars, Winter, Feelings

  8 Copy quote

• It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Practice, Long

  6 Copy quote

• Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Heart, Angel

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  9 Copy quote

• A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

  Philip Pullman

  Jobs, Angel, Stories

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

  7 Copy quote

• She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

  Philip Pullman

  Life, Coffee, Verbs

  Philip Pullman (2008). “The Tin Princess”, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

• Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

  Philip Pullman

  Paradise, Fairy Tale, Ulysses

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

  8 Copy quote

• You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

  Philip Pullman

  Fate, Destiny, Speak

  "The Golden Compass". Book by Philip Pullman, 1996.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Love, Travel, Knowing

  "Northern Lights". Book by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. 1995.

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Writing, Fire, Flames

  6 Copy quote

• You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

  Philip Pullman

  Running, Winning, Race

  6 Copy quote

• Everything means something.

  Philip Pullman

  Mean, His Dark Materials

  4 Copy quote

• But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

  Philip Pullman

  Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 9

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin