Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

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

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.