David Meadows
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Q&A with Philip Pullman
(Wasn't sure where this belonged really...)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7774176.stm
These are my favourite answers:
how/where did you first get the idea about people having daemons?
by sitting and thinking/in the shed at the bottom of my garden.
What is dust? Does the idea come from mythology or space science?
it came out of my head.
Sometimes I think people don't believe that writers are actually good at making stuff up
Edited to fix the typo in the topic title
Last edited by David Meadows, 12/10/2008, 3:12 pm
--- "Pleasure to me is wonder--the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability."
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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Firlefanz
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Re: Q&A with Philip Puillman
Thanks for the link, David.
I like most of his answers - plain, normal writers' answers. At least he doesn't spout any stuff about mystical inspriation and such.
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Loud G
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Re: Q&A with Philip Puillman
quote: Planning is for control freaks. No-one ever controlled a novel into existence.
I disagree. There are lots of sucessful control freak authors
That was an interesting interview. Though I think he comes across as a bit pompous at times.
Some of his answers were blatant contradictions to what he has said before.
And if dust wasn't inspired by Dark Matter...well...I just don't know...
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Reythia
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Re: Q&A with Philip Pullman
quote: David Meadows wrote:
Sometimes I think people don't believe that writers are actually good at making stuff up
Haha! No kidding!
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