Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is….
Imagination is a form of seeing.
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish..
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure….
When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends..
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim..
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabe….
You cannot change what you are, only what you do..
Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are..
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could l….
Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a ….
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon..
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both..
All things from the north are devilish..
Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse..
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair..
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a f….
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made….
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that..
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight..
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it..