564 Quotes by philip pullman

Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well.

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change.

I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.

Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.