Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same.
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents..
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what….
...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s woul….
My books are about killing God..
Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel..
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait f….
Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of ti….
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?.
But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know..
People are too complicated to have simple labels..
If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equa….
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong….
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories..
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing an….
It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by t….
The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and ….
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are..
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read..
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we'v….