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
book reading thought-provoking
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
book reading thought-provoking
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
waiting library looks
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
important stories storytelling
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
boys numbness world
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
ideas good-ideas
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
choices never-let-go
We are the choices we make.
book world where-you-live
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
stories hunts bites
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
fall ifs
if one of us falls, we all fall
responsibility choices
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
lying believe knowing
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
integrity responsibility choices
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.