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About Philip Pullman
English writer, best known for His Dark Materials
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer, best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. He is a contemporary author whose work has reached a wide readership, with 119 quotes on this site. His Dark Materials began with Northern Lights in 1995, which won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass, won the Whitbread Award. He later began the companion trilogy The Book of Dust in 2017, and its final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
More from Philip Pullman (119 quotes) →Other sayings from Philip Pullman
- “The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a…”Philip Pullman
- “I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe…”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…”Philip Pullman
- “He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of t…”Philip Pullman
Storytelling: more sayings
- “The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that kno…”Simon Toyne
- “The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me o…”Jared C. Wilson
- “People think that cartoons are meant to be watched on television and not in cinemas. To get people into cinem…”Ronnie Screwvala
Writing: more sayings
- “I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.”Graham Moore
- “Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be differ…”Piers Anthony
- “Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one wr…”Muhammad Faizan Khan.
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Books by Philip Pullman
Northern Lights
1999
The Subtle Knife
2002
The Amber Spyglass
2001
His Dark Materials
2007
The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)
1985