I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

Quote by Philip Pullman

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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title...

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title...

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need...

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need...

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it...

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it...

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And...

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And...

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time;...

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time;...

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish...

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish...

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If...

Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If...

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can...

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can...

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If...

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If...

For a human being, nothing comes naturally. We have to learn everything we do.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally. We have to learn everything we do.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a...

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a...

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of...

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of...

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap...

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap...

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart...

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart...

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is...

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere...