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Philip Pullman Biography

Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture.

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There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

Days, Flowing, Freely, Make, Stuff

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Day, Grips, Ideas, Imagination, Time, Urban

And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence. That was how these creatures looked now, these beautiful pilgrims of rarefied light, standing around the girl with the dirty-face and the tartan skirt and the boy with the wounded hand who was frowning in his sleep.

Beautiful, Differently, Distance, Girl, Time, Travel

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Labels, People, Simple

I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.

Absolute, American, Fallen, Mystery, Party, Stupidity

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Exploring, Fighting, Healing, Resentful, Tell, Thinking

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God. . . . My books are about killing God.

Book, God, Killing, Possible, Think, Thinking

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.

Folded, Funny, Having, Inspirational, Jobs, Life

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.

Harmless, Might, Once Upon A Time, Stories, Story, Time

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

Race, Races, Running, Winning, Wishing

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.

Freedom, Humble, Know, Stronger, Submit, Want

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing. . . I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

Against, Book, Gets, Happen, Reading, Writing

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Adults, Children, Informed, Intelligent

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.

Anxiety, Behalf, Duty, Maturity, Scorn, Young

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.

Church, Feeling, Feelings, Fighting, Obliterate

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

Children, Book, Adults, Fiction, Adequately

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

Back, Long, People, Tradition, Way, Writing

Everything means something.

Everything, His Dark Materials, Mean

The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.

Clear, Concerned, Facts, Focus, Immediate, Kind

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.

Angel, Jobs, Particular, Sprite, Stories

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