Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere..
Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't h….
The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with….
Everything means something..
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and sil….
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I….
He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since him. I dares….
Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something th….
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died..
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..
If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end ….
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer..
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..
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religio….
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..
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again..
And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra..
For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do..
We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the ….
Read like a butterfly, write like a bee..
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….