What I couldnt help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than Id learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. – Philip Pullman
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. – Philip Pullman
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and theyd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! – Philip Pullman
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. – Philip Pullman