Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness
Patrick Nessis an American author, journalist and lecturer who moved to London at age of 28 and now holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth17 October 1971
CountryUnited States of America
Patrick Ness quotes about
deceiving never-leave-me leaving-me
Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
sound impossible crash
The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
things-change
Things change, but they stay the same.
powerful sky sound
And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
steps poet steps-forward
Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
writing thinking important
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 do.
looks ifs knows
There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
wild-world stories happy-endings
Stories don’t always have happy endings.
life cutting hands
But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.
stars moon voice
Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.
army thinking people
"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"
saving merit sometimes
Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
giving useless world
Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
stories monsters cheat
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.