Philip Pullman : (3)

" Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet. " - Philip Pullman

" What I couldn’t help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. " - Philip Pullman

" Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. " - Philip Pullman