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Philip Pullman
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in unders...
“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”
“I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.”
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.Thou shalt notis ...
“When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never exist...
philip pullman
“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books ...
“He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more tha...
“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know e...
“There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad book...
“As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine wi...
“Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us,...
“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and y...
“Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look sca...
“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'...
