1,151 Quotes by James Patterson



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    Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

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    I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.

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    I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to people. You've got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.

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    The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

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