Philip Pullman


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in Norwich, Norfolk, England, The United Kingdom
October 19, 1946

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As a passionate believer in the democracy of reading, I don't think it's the task of the author of a book to tell the reader what it means.

The meaning of a story emerges in the meeting between the words on the page and the thoughts in the reader's mind. So when people ask me what I meant by this story, or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one, I have to explain that I'm not going to explain.

Anyway, I'm not in the message business; I'm in the "Once upon a time" business.


Philip Pullman is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Wee
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The Golden Compass (His Dar...

4.02 avg rating — 1,548,002 ratings — published 1995 — 209 editions
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark ...

4.15 avg rating — 441,488 ratings — published 1997 — 385 editions
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dar...

4.10 avg rating — 365,465 ratings — published 2000 — 371 editions
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His Dark Materials (His Dar...

4.29 avg rating — 163,417 ratings — published 2000 — 166 editions
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La Belle Sauvage (The Book ...

4.15 avg rating — 103,894 ratings — published 2017 — 116 editions
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The Secret Commonwealth (Th...

4.04 avg rating — 55,775 ratings — published 2019 — 80 editions
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The Ruby in the Smoke (Sall...

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Quotes by Philip Pullman (?)
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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
Philip Pullman

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.Thou shalt notis soon forgotten, butOnce upon a timelasts forever.”
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“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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