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About Patrick Ness
American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter
Patrick Ness is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter. Born in the United States, he later moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He has 117 quotes on the site and is best known for his work in young adult fiction. His best-known books include the Chaos Walking trilogy, published from 2008 to 2010, and A Monster Calls, published in 2011. His writing is most closely associated with young adult readers, though he has also worked as a journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter.
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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 t…”Patrick Ness
- “We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”Patrick Ness
- “People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort…”Patrick Ness
- “That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't ch…”Patrick Ness
Explore Grief
- “Kache did not know how to rewind his life, how to undo the one thing that had undone him. His world was indee…”Seré Prince Halverson
- “Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years…”K. Martin Beckner
- “Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now,…”Sue Monk Kidd
Death: more sayings
- “Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're…”Tahar Ben Jelloun
- “Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years…”K. Martin Beckner
- “Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.”Juan Rulfo
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Books by Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
2011
The Knife of Never Letting Go
2009
The rest of us just live here
2015
Monsters of men
2010
The Crane Wife
2014