564 Quotes by philip pullman

All things from the north are devilish.

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.