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Philip Pullman

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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.


— Philip Pullman


#tyranny #writing #inspirational

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.


— Philip Pullman


#life #inspirational

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.


— Philip Pullman


#fate #destiny

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.


— Philip Pullman


#religion

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.


— Philip Pullman


#on-writing #storytelling #inspirational

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.


— Philip Pullman


#fate #destiny

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.


— Philip Pullman


#life #inspirational

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.


— Philip Pullman


#living #life

because he's Will


— Philip Pullman


#inspirational

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.


— Philip Pullman


#maturity #youth #life






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Pullman has narrated unabridged audiobooks of the three main novels in His Dark Materials. " Pullman chose some more obscure tales too. Literary critic Alan Jacobs (of Wheaton College) said that in His Dark Materials Pullman replaced the theist world-view of John Milton's Paradise Lost with a Rousseauist one.

title The Golden Compass. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. 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.

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