Philip Pullman Quotes

My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

My portal to another world was fiction.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

There is a world elsewhere.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

I wrote the show West Wing for the two years before and the two years after 9/11. Suddenly everyone in the world had been through something that our characters had not been through; the whole trajectory of the world had changed. Yet our show took place in a parallel universe. I wasn't really sure what to do about this. In no one's wildest dreams did it occur that an event like this could possibly happen.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

I'll live in another world, then.

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

There is a world inside the world.

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.