Dystopian Author Quotes

Patrick Ness If you ever see a war, she says not looking up from her clipboard “you’ll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. […]

Patrick Ness Didn’t you finish your chemistry in school? “You closed the school and burnt all the books.” “Ah so I did.”

Patrick Ness Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Patrick Ness if one of us falls, we all fall

Patrick Ness That’s what I want as a reader – I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

Patrick Ness 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 […]

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

Patrick Ness No,’ Ben says, ‘but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that’s why it’s hope.

Patrick Ness The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say. About anything. Need […]