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Explore our hand-picked selection of 213 inspiring quotes by Philip Pullman.

About Philip Pullman

  • Born: October 19, 1946
  • Occupation: Film Writer
    • 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.
    Party Stupidity Mystery
    Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. but it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. i'm not interested in denigrating disney or even commenting on him very much. i'm more interested in seeing what i can do with the stories myself.
    Stories Done Fairy Tale
    The crucifixion saved him [jesus]. he never had to deal with the fact that the kingdom of god wasn't ever going to come. his disciples, of course, had to deal with it, and little by little they had to realize that it's a metaphorical thing. well, that's not what jesus meant. i'm fairly sure he meant it literally. but he must have been the most fascinating man.
    Jesus Men Littles
    If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. if we all hated our father and mother, as jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. there are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what jesus says in the gospel.
    Mother Jesus Father
    The state of mind which i put myself when i tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. and i welcome that because it helps me.
    Mind Stories Superstitions
    I'm superstitious about the paper that i use, for example. i've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.
    Distance Two Example
    The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. i do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.
    Book Believe Pay
    One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. generally speaking, i don't like to make a plan before i've written a story. i find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. unless i'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.
    Writing Stories Way
    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.
    Ideas Imagination Urban
    Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. i think what i'm doing in his dark materials is politically the reverse of that.
    Dark Thinking Long
    The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. it shows where your moral center is. so you are in the message business whether you like it or not.
    Character Thinking Example
    The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
    Fairy Tale Fairy Great Things
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