Philip Pullman Quotes

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

A story? No. No stories, never again.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

There are two types of stories: public and private.

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.