Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book..
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….
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 ….
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again..
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….
The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chie….
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed..
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing..
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….
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….
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 ….
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.….
He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another w….
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….
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake..
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….
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….
And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were emb….
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..
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically..
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the ….