"What I thought mostly when I was a child was, 'I want to be in this story with them. [...] I didn't want to stop being myself; I didn't want to be them; I wanted to put myself into the story and enjoy things happening to me. And in the private, secret, inviolable space that opened out miraculously between the printed page and my young mind, that sort of thing happened all the time. It's the state of mind in which you can hear the voice of your daemon. In fact, there are probably daemon voices whispering to us all the time, and we've forgotten how to hear them."
Philip Pullman on childhood reading, from the essay Imaginary Friends, part of the forthcoming Daemon Voices.
Not much longer to wait now!
Posted by: Toffeeapple | 24 August 2017 at 12:16 PM
No!
Posted by: Cornflower | 29 August 2017 at 04:13 PM