Quotes About Inspiration

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

Her love for me made me as tall as the mountains

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

No penséis que no habéis vivido lo bastante como para no tener una historia que contar.

Because an idea lives on after the death of the person.

No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?

I want a campfire box.

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

Las historias son importantes -dijo el monstruo-. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

This is why I came walking, to tell you this so that you may heal. You must listen. Conor swallowed again. "I'm listening." You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. There

Stories don't end with the writers, however many started the race.

it was like all those things became true, just for an instant the world changed, just for a second it became made of Viola's voice and it wasn't describing a thing, it was making a thing, it was making us different just by saying it.

The thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

Les histoires sont des créatures sauvages. Quand tu les libères, qui sait ce qu'elles peuvent déclencher?

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. His

The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas. Almost before I could help it, Siobhan's ideas were suggesting new ones to me, and I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.

never got to meet Siobhan Dowd. I only know her the way that most of the rest of you will – through her superb books. Four electric young adult novels, two published in her lifetime, two after her too-early death. If

Remember," he says. "Hope.

Las historias eran criaturas salvajes, muy salvajes, y salían disparadas en la dirección que menos esperabas.