Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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If one of us falls, we all fall.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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 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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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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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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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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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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You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
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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 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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Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.
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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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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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"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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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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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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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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You went up a girl and came down a woman.
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Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.