So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
Philip PullmanLiterary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, โOh my god! Iโm telling a story! Oh, that canโt be the case, because Iโm a clever person. Iโm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! Iโll write Ulysses.โ
Philip PullmanBut we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.
Philip PullmanIf I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?
Philip Pullman