Quotes by Patrick Ness

About Patrick Ness:

Patrick Ness is an American-born English author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls.
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Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, . Oh, please, please, save me from the !" The monster looked at him quizzically. , it said.

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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you .

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We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

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she showed now, sadly, “No,” he said. “They’re the ones who are asking for too little.

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Les histoires sont des créatures sauvages. Quand tu les libères, qui sait ce qu'elles peuvent déclencher?

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Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

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Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new chapter. The way your bookmark -fancy, modest, scrap paper, c...

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He loved physical books with the same avidity other people loved horses or wine or prog rock. He'd never really warmed to ebooks because they seemed to reduce a book to a computer file, and computer files were disposable things, things you never real...

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The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.

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The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.

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A man without a filter, is chaos walking

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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it." [ ( , 23 June 2011)]

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Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

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Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

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Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

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Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

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There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

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I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again.

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His Noise saying, No, no, not now, not NOW- And then he says, Viola? "I'm here, Todd," I say, my voice breaking, shouting with desperation. "I'm here!" And he says Voila? again- Asking it- Asking like he's not sure I'm there- And then his Noise falls...

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Author Bio

  • NamePatrick Ness
  • DescriptionAmerican-British novelist and children's writer
  • BornOctober 17, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist