I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace. Patrick Ness More Quotes by Patrick Ness More Quotes From Patrick Ness 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. Patrick Ness choices responsibility integrity And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops. Patrick Ness mad noise men To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. Patrick Ness choices responsibility A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. Patrick Ness where-you-live book world We are the choices we make. Patrick Ness never-let-go choices 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. Patrick Ness library waiting looks 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. Patrick Ness knowing believe lying "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. Patrick Ness wild-world stories animal Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking. Patrick Ness filters men life Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. Patrick Ness thought-provoking reading book Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. Patrick Ness thought-provoking reading book ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas. Patrick Ness good-ideas ideas In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. Patrick Ness numbness boys world Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. Patrick Ness storytelling important stories Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains. Patrick Ness ocean beach moving Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out. Patrick Ness differences men two There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise. Patrick Ness wonder world You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less Patrick Ness possibility leader wise Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare? Patrick Ness winning may world No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope. Patrick Ness i-believe believe
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