Patrick Ness Quotes

Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

Patrick Ness

Quotes to Explore

We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

Samantha Power
- Back
- United States
- Meet
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

Karin Slaughter
- Book
- Thought
- Start
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

Valerie Plame
- You
- Stress
- Adapt
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Barbra Streisand
- Know
- First
- Boring
I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

Karen Gillan
- Character
- Think
- Star
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown
- Small
- Friendship
- Silly