Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your….
My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instant….
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature..
On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financia….
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church d….
Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately be….
You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again..
I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The….
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky..
No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love a….
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..
Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed..
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway..
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it ….
The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of….
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever..
Once upon a time' lasts forever..
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die..
There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have ….
There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly..