You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception. - Philip Pullman

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Engraved portrait of Philip Pullman, facing left

You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception.

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About Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novels, and a number of other books.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Photographed by Adrian Hon, http://mssv.net/ (CC BY-SA)

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Alternative Names: Sir Philip Pullman Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman

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