Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSLis an English writer. He is the author of several best-selling books, most notably 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"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth19 October 1946
sky sun world
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
other-worlds next moments
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
betrayal delight world
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.
other-worlds important this-life
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
important world stories
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
dream world
Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?
stories world morality
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.
books feed genuine nourish satisfy truth
Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, ... And I don't see much of that in most fantasy.
answers bully fighting reasons response
Fighting isn't the right response to bullying-for adults. Adults have to find out what makes the bully the way he is and look for reasons and answers and understanding. That's an adult's responsibility.
alive central space watching
It's not like watching TV; it's not even like watching a film in a cinema. Everyone in that big space is alive and everyone is focussed on one central activity.
human learn
For a human being, nothing comes naturally. We have to learn everything we do.
absence christian doctrine object presence
It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue,
audience children experience fresh opera performed run simply theatre
The experience of being in the audience when a play or an opera is being performed is not simply passive. Children need to go to the theatre as much as they need to run about in the fresh air.
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And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?