1,151 Quotes by James Patterson

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    A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren’t that terrific.

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    When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn’t want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.

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    Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

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    Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.

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    My dear, there is no universal secret. There’s only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward.

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    It was so cold outside that a lawyer would have his hands in his own pockets.

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    Anne is quite the animal lover,” Fang said to me as we followed Angel. “Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs.” “Yeah,” I said. “I wonder who’s for dinner?

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    Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger I could never be as fangalicious as you’d want me to be.-Fang.

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    Here’s something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.

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