Philip Pullman

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#high #i #long #long time #poet

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#everything #meaning #only #read

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#argue #else #nature #own #your

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

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#day #easier #finished #get #going

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

#forever #forgotten #lasts #lists #need

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#backwards #come #curious #forward #grandparents

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

#form #good #good prose #i #i can

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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