Philip Pullman Quotes about Growing Up

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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

Philip Pullman

Growing Up, Moving, Grandparent

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

Philip Pullman

Growing Up, Scientist, Blank

Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Philip Pullman

Growing Up, Feelings, Lions

Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.121, Random House

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

Philip Pullman

Mother, Growing Up, Couple

"His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.