I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.