�For example, writing a story (which is the only art I know much about) feels to me like fishing in a boat at night. The sea is much bigger than you are, and the light of your little lamp doesn't show you very much of it. You hope it'll attract some curious fish, but perhaps you'll sit there all night long and not get a bite� (Pullman 2003b) .
A comment in regards to standardized tests - "The things you can test are not actually the most important things" (Pullman 2003c) .
Referring to post it notes - "I find them very useful. They're the best writing technology I've come across" (Weich 2003) .
"If I could choose I would like my daemon to be something attractive and beautiful and photogenic... all the things that I am not typically. But you can't choose and it might turn out to be something like a slug that didn't look very nice at all.
But what I think my daemon probably is if I could guess would be one of those birds like a Jackdaw or a Magpie, nothing spectacular to look at but they steal bright things... That is what story tellers do - we look for bright shiny interesting bits of gossip or bits of news or bits of information that reveal a character or something. And we collect them all and take them back to our nest..." (CBBC Newsround 2002).
Pullman's thoughts on soap operas - "After lunch I always watch Neighbours. Soap operas are interesting because there�s no limit to the length a story can have � it can go on for months, if it�s got some life in it. I like watching the script editors losing interest in one story-line and promoting another instead, and it�s fascinating to watch some characters gaining story-potency as others lose it, and to try and work out why it�s happening. Neighbours is better than EastEnders or Coronation Street for this, because there�s no distracting social comment. It�s all pure story: one thing following another" (Scholastic 2004).
"I started telling stories as soon as I knew what stories were. I was fascinated by them � that something could happen and be connected to another thing, and that someone could put the two things together and show how the first thing caused the second thing, which then caused a third thing. I loved it. I love it still" (Pullman 2004b).
"My early experience with stories came from the radio, which is a wonderful medium. I remember listening to gangster serials, and cowboy serials, and best of all � Superman!" (Pullman 2004b).
"For a long time, my favorite stories were ghost stories. I used to enjoy frightening myself and my friends with the tales I read. I also liked making up stories about the tree in the woods we used to call the Hanging Tree. My friends and I would creep past it in the dark and shiver as we looked at the bare, sinister outline against the sky. I still enjoy ghost stories, even though I don't think I believe in ghosts anymore" (Pullman 2004b).
