Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.
Philip PullmanI think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.
Philip PullmanThe Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Spectersโ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
Philip PullmanWhen you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
Philip Pullman