Philip Pullman

Quotes

• “I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know ev...”
• “I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books u...”
• “Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, ...”
• “I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and yo...”
• “I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in underst...”
• “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is...”
• “There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books...”
• “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
• “I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”
• “I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.”