Patrick Ness Quotes

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Libraries raised me.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

It's always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn for myself. Be it from books, TV or the Internet, I try to know what happened in the world.