You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls

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About Patrick Ness

Portrait of Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness FRSL (born 17 October 1971) is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking (2008–2010) trilogy and A Monster Calls (2011).

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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls

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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

—Lawrence Clark Powell

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I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

—George Bernard Shaw

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