"True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility." ― Philip Pullman Topic(s): Education More From Philip Pullman "What I couldn’t help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism." "For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and for that you need silence." More In Education "I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn’t see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education."― Clyde Tombaugh "But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality – a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."― Norman McLaren "Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."― Victor Hugo