Quotes by Philip Pullman

Explore a curated collection of 36 quotes by Philip Pullman. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

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 books — Philip Pullman
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. — Philip Pullman
I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, becaus — Philip Pullman
When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia b — 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 u — Philip Pullman
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and yo — Philip Pullman
It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being — Philip Pullman
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that i — Philip Pullman
I have said that His Dark Materials is not fantasy but stark realism, and my reason for this is to emphasise what I thin — Philip Pullman
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know ev — Philip Pullman
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer. — Philip Pullman
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, — Philip Pullman
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is — Philip Pullman
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, mak — Philip Pullman
When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia b — 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 u — Philip Pullman
The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and — Philip Pullman
It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that — Philip Pullman
Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they rene — Philip Pullman