“Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.”
“When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.”
“All I ever feel like doing is sleeping. I guess because it doesn't hurt as bad when you're asleep.”
“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”
“I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust.“It’s going very well and it will be finished when I write the words ‘The End’.”
“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”