Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
Philip PullmanAnd think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
Philip PullmanFor that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence
Philip PullmanTolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.
Philip Pullman