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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

~Philip Pullman

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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.

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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

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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.

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Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

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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.

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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.

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The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

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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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1946

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