Patrick Ness Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.
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If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
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I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
