Philip Pullman Quotes

For a human being, nothing comes naturally. We have to learn everything we do. - Philip Pullman

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. - Philip Pullman

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. - Philip Pullman

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. - Philip Pullman

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. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. - Philip Pullman

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. - Philip Pullman

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? - Philip Pullman

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. - Philip Pullman

Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, 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

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