You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.
Philip PullmanWe need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
Philip PullmanI look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.
Philip PullmanWell, 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 PullmanWe have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.
Philip PullmanI wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.
Philip Pullman