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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.
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- “Who are you?" the woman said at last."Lyra Silver—""No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know…”Philip Pullman
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- “To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're d…”Philip Pullman
- “Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or…”Philip Pullman
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- “I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.”Garth Davis
- “If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.”Agyness Deyn
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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