Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
A murderer was a worthy companion..
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's ….
I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a sta….
I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales..
I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christi….
It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth workin….
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do. When I tell t….
There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to p….
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text..
I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - main….
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if yo….
Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears a….
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual histor….
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well ….
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenl….
The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he foun….
Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found h….
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it wa….
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-….
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.….
...because where we are is always the most important place..