Editing Philip Pullman (section)

=== Views on children's literature ===
Pullman believes that children deserve quality literature, and that there isn't a clear demarcation between children's and adult literature. In a talk at the [[Royal Society of Literature]], he quoted [[C. S. Lewis]] in "On Three Ways of Writing for Children": "I now like [[Hock (wine)|hock]], which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like [[lemon squash|lemon-squash]]. I call this growth or development because I have been enriched: where I formerly had only one pleasure, I now have two." Pullman says that "It would be nice to think that normal human curiosity would let us open our minds to experience from every quarter, to listen to every storyteller in the marketplace. It would be nice too, occasionally, to read a review of an adult book that said, 'This book is so interesting, and so clearly and beautifully written, that children would enjoy it as well.'"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pullman |first=Philip |title=Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It |url=https://lithub.com/philip-pullman-on-childrens-literature-and-the-critics-who-disdain-it/ |website=LitHub|date=8 October 2019}}</ref> 
He is an admirer of [[Philippa Pearce]]; when Pullman's ''Northern Lights'' won the [[Carnegie of Carnegies]], Pearce's ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]'' was the runner-up. Pullman said "Personally, I feel they got the initials right but not the name. I don't know if the result would be the same in a hundred years' time; maybe Philippa Pearce would win then."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ezard |first=John |date=June 22, 2007 |title=Pullman children's book named the best in 70 years |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/22/books.booksnews}}</ref> In 2011, Pullman gave the Philippa Pearce Lecture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pullman |first=Philip |date=2011 |title=Philippa Pearce Lecture |url=https://pearcelecture.com/the-lectures/2011-2/ |access-date=12 October 2022 |archive-date=12 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012025719/https://pearcelecture.com/the-lectures/2011-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He is also an admirer of [[Leon Garfield]], "someone who put the best of his imagination into everything he wrote", particularly praising ''The Pleasure Garden''. 
In a lecture, he said that "one of the things we need to do for children is introduce them to the pleasures of the subtle and complex. One way to do that, of course, is to let them see us enjoying it, and then forbid them to touch it, on the grounds that it's too grown-up for them, their minds aren't ready to cope with it, it's too strong, it'll drive them mad with strange and uncontrollable desires. If that doesn't make them want to try it, nothing will."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pullman |first=Philip |date=December 28, 2002 |title=Voluntary Service |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/28/society.philippullman}}</ref>