Patrick Ness Quotes
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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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.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
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That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
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Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
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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.
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"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?"
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Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.
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You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.
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They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians.
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?