1,151 Quotes by James Patterson


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    Between Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, everything worth saying has already been said, and said better than i could ever say it.

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    I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It’s very disciplined, yes, but it’s joy for me.

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    I picked a star and wished as hard as i could that somehow i could protect him from what was on the horizon.

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    Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn’t it?

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    Bad stuff does happen somtimes, Nicolas. Always rememnber that, but remember that you have to move on, somehow. You just pick up your head and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

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    You don’t want to be anywhere near one of our battles. I don’t even want to be near our battles. Unfortunately, the evil idiots usually don’t give me a choice. –.

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    My style is colloquial storytelling. It’s the way we tell stories to one another – it’s not writerly, it’s not overdone.

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