Showing posts with label Philip Pullman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Pullman. Show all posts

Monday, September 20, 2010

Philip Pullman on reading...

“We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts : we need books, time and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”

From Philip Pullman’s acceptance speech for the Carnegie medal, 1996