Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before.….
I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily….
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upo….
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the fac….
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place..
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, bec….
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could ….
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it shoul….
Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's….
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the ….
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake..
To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out ….
What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work ….
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to piece….
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically..
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense sile….
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me..
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times..
After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did w….
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 grandparen….
Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere..