Patrick Ness Quotes

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

Patrick Ness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleMeWritingStoryNobodyBuy

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

John Dickerson

BlindYouNobodyYesOutPresidency

I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.

Max Martin

DayNightHellLearnTryingTwo

On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.

Amy Carlson

GirlMyselfUglyGrowing UpThink

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

Stephen Hawking

BlackNobodyPrizePityWouldHole

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Stephen Hawking

FearTimeTravelTalkingTime Travel

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

Rupert Friend

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When I'm at home, I'm a real big cuddler, so I sleep with my dog in my arms.

Mirai Nagasu

DogHomeSleepRealBigArms

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

Luke James

MusicTimeManChildMeDoing

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Dick Thornburgh

ExperienceMeResolutionCongress

I try not to take much time off for lunch, so I usually end up with a tossed salad from the local deli.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

TimeLunchEndTrySaladUp

'Call Me by Your Name' does not have a political agenda. It is not a 'cause' film. It is a simple and beautifully shot story about a same-sex relationship that exists in a very tiny Italian village.

Wilson Cruz

RelationshipSimpleMeStoryName

I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.

Priyanka Chopra

NeverAwkwardSituationsAnyHad

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