There was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism. We see a similar reaction in painting and in music. It's a...
Many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction
Gyropters will arrive shortly after the zeppelins. In accordance with your orders, the Lady
Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, ‘Come along o’ me, it’s time.
You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.
Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny...
Truly, he said, I am dead … I’m dead, and I’m going to Hell … Hush, said Lyra, we’ll go together.
The present Mr. Parslow was teaching his son the craft; the two of them and their three workmen would scramble like industrious termites over the scaffolding they’d erected at the corner of the librar...
The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralysing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it, and remember what Vincent van Gogh said in one of his le...
The Subtle Knife is the second part of the trilogy that began with The Golden Compass. That first book was set in a world like ours, but different. This book begins in our own world.
That is a question with too complicated an answer.
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It...
Sunlight shining on the fur of a golden monkey…
Somewhere out there is the origin of all the Dust, all the death, the sin, the misery, the destructiveness in the world. Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it... That's origina...
Seems to me the place to fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.
Once we use the word spiritual, we don’t have to explain anymore, because it belongs to the Church then, and no one can question it.
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 thing just because it’s dangerous
Lyra ook niet.''Elfenmelk,' zei ze. 'Wat doet dat met je? Is ze nu ook een elfje?
Lyra has never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.