Philip Pullman Clockwork Quotes & Sayings

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story. — Philip Pullman

We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win that race
I will come first
and you wind up the future like clockwork. The world has no choice but to obey! Can the hands of that old clock in the corner decide to stop? Can the spring in your watch decide to wind itself up and run backward? No! They have no choice. And nor has the future, once you have wound it up. — Philip Pullman