Philip Pullman Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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 happens next. They force you to tell a story.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Book, Writing

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

• There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Book, Adults

• Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Intelligent, Adults

• Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Golden, Should

• Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Fighting, Dragons

• We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Needs, Waste

  "All around you is silence" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2003.

• The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Blood, Vampire

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

  Philip Pullman

  Beautiful, Children, Simple

• The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Mean, Justice

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

• The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Teacher, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

• All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He told stories very easily and very generously, so I loved him for that. He was a simple man, a Victorian; he was born in 1890-something. He saw no reason and had never seen any reason to question his Christian faith. His faith was strong and simple and that's it. And I, like his other grandchildren and the children in his parish, sheltered underneath it.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Strong, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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