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
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.
men mad too-much
And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
race stories ends
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
lying people needs
Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
mother world green
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.
dad grandma needs
You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
alive worst stills
He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
real mean way-to-live
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
know-yourself knows
Know yourself and go in swinging.
want said wells
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
men years becoming
Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
crazy lying people
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
stars moon voice
Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.
teenager loyal world
Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal