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I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

~Philip Pullman

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Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

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It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.

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Theatre is one of those things that children will love if they're helped to get there to see it. No child will find his or her own way to the theatre.

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The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

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Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.

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You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

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Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

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Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

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One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1946

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