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
somebody written
The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
rewrite
I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
films mobile puts
If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
adjective allegiance mediocre setting
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
okay
Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?
goes-on time-goes-on
Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
nice two people
It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
wells
A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
one-day needs looks
And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.
deceiving never-leave-me leaving-me
Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
things-change
Things change, but they stay the same.
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.
wild-world stories happy-endings
Stories don’t always have happy endings.
seeing i-can
Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.