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Patrick Ness Quotes

The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

Patrick Ness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1971

Topics

Value Uncomfortable More Realist

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

Problem Ask Always United Been Any

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

Michael Bloomberg

God You Buildings Alive More First

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Alvar Aalto

Time People Know More Who Our Time

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Identity End Long Shaving Soldier

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.

Steven Pinker

Baby Organization Think Connections

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Tom Stoppard

Children Respect Words World Think

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition.

Michael Schultz

Work Experience Men Black Dark Play

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

Deborah Wiles

Children Dance People Writing Help

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

Debra L. Reed

Leader Performance Someone Look Out

Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

Bret Stephens

Bag Worst President Office He Mixed

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Anthony Hecht

Children Me Strange Seem Like

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

Willie Mays

Catch Just Compare