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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman
British Writer
Born: Oct 19, 1946
Education Love Me Time Writing You
Related authors: Alan Moore Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Priestley Jane Austen Lawrence Durrell Mary Wollstonecraft Norman Douglas Tom Hodgkinson
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. Philip Pullman
Anxiety Old Young Duty Scorn Behalf Anxious
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. Philip Pullman
Time You Backwards Parents About Only Come Pieces Well Up Curious Move Move Forward Grandparents Your Forward Growing Growing Up Lives Thing
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. Philip Pullman
Nature Own Else Argue Anything Anything Else Your
I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief. Philip Pullman
Christian Undermine Trying Belief Basis
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular. Philip Pullman
Love Music Great World Jazz Types Music World Folk Folk Music Russian Piano Particular Most Listen Century Pop Pop Music World Music
It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls. Philip Pullman
Visit Part Firmly Concert Halls Curriculum Established Children Should
And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? Philip Pullman
Today Me Problem First Before Telling Paragraph Troubles Come Got Am Still End Up Begin Bang Whenever Where Story Against Fundamental Slap
For 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 Pullman
Music Silence You Writing Listening Lying Says Write He Badly Hear Anyone Either Reason Who Playing Need
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! Philip Pullman
Education Me Three Reading System Entire About Something Point Point Of View Through Never Had Studying Importance Passed Years Oxford Fiction Literature View English Basic British
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. Philip Pullman
Education Me Our Everything Alleging Foolish Remarks Maintained Leads Schools Well Make Occasionally Passionate Which Interest
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. Philip Pullman
Best Good Writing Training Strict Say Possible Write Prose Verse Form
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. Philip Pullman
You Manners Minus Calculate Like Without Equation Square Cannot Which Root Your Eve Include Things Adam Imaginary Adam And Eve Imagined Numbers
Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well. Philip Pullman
Life Quality Speak Other Sympathy Out Degradation Case General More Pointing Particular Well Quality Of Life Because Than Authors Going Stop Special Many Groups Deserving
I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change. Philip Pullman
Change Book World Every Marketing Ecology Individual Like Deal Editor Doing Person Should Publicity Publishers Designer Damaging
I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds. Philip Pullman
Love Fly Birds Way Daring Most
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade. Philip Pullman
Book Ending Healthy Benefit Everyone Libraries Distributor Ecology Reader Trade Up Author Should Including Publisher Starting
I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply. Philip Pullman
Sold Books See Cheaply Like
One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently. Philip Pullman
Recommend Consult Writer Piece Frequently Equipment Handy Any Fiction Which Them Cards Set
I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found. Philip Pullman
Time Good Writing Long Way Pen Write Never Put Instead Know Most Likely Balanced Because Comfortably How Precise Stop Stopped Order Decide Whether Cap Use Works Each Found Each Time Ever Fountain Fountain Pen
The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing. Philip Pullman
Love Best Drawing Mental Delight Sort Effort Activity Why

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