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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
- “Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy…”Philip Pullman
- “Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case o…”Philip Pullman
- “I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.”Philip Pullman
- “Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equat…”Philip Pullman
Hunger: more sayings
- “Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.”Heinrich Heine
- “. You are overfed yet under-nourished. Your body needs specific nutrients to run properly or you will get men…”Josh Bezoni
- “Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about culture,…”Antonin Artaud
Books: more sayings
- “A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]”Susan Sontag
- “From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intel…”Miriam Margolyes
- “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do t…”Benjamin Franklin
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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