I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

Patrick Ness

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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.

choices responsibility integrity

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibilit... by Patrick Ness

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

choices responsibility

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, w... by Patrick Ness

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

where-you-live book world

We are the choices we make. by Patrick Ness

We are the choices we make.

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.

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.

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.

wild-world stories animal

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking. by Patrick Ness

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

filters men life

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. by Patrick Ness

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

thought-provoking reading book

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. by Patrick Ness

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

thought-provoking reading book

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas. by Patrick Ness

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

good-ideas ideas

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

numbness boys world

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything.... by Patrick Ness

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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.

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.

differences men two

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you ot... by Patrick Ness

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader w... by Patrick Ness

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

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?

winning may world

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that'... by Patrick Ness

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

i-believe believe