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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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- “When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.”Patrick Ness
- “If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is…”Patrick Ness
- “You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always somethin…”Patrick Ness
- “For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four bi…”Patrick Ness
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- “There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taugh…”Angela Carter
- “But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life…”Laura Amy Schlitz
- “Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions.…”Michael Ondaatje
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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