Philip Pullman Quote
Was I wrong? Yes, of course. But you had no choice. I must have. No, you had to do it. If you hadn’t done it, you’d have felt feeble. It shouldn’t be about how we feel—guilty, feeble— No, and it isn’t. It’s about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad. This is about as good a cover as anyone could find. Leave it at that.
Philip Pullman
Was I wrong? Yes, of course. But you had no choice. I must have. No, you had to do it. If you hadn’t done it, you’d have felt feeble. It shouldn’t be about how we feel—guilty, feeble— No, and it isn’t. It’s about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad. This is about as good a cover as anyone could find. Leave it at that.
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About Philip Pullman
Northern Lights, the first volume in His Dark Materials, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the Carnegie's 70th anniversary, it was named in the top ten by a panel tasked with compiling a shortlist for a public vote for an all-time favourite. It won that public vote and was named all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" in June 2007. It was filmed under the book's US title, The Golden Compass. In 2003, His Dark Materials trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public.