Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
James Patterson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
Actor
Advertising Person
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Philanthropist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Newburgh
New York
James Brendan Patterson
James B. Patterson
People
High
Getting
Addicted
Understand
Competent
Kids
Readers
School
Aren
Hard
Reader
Going
Coming
Really
Middle
More quotes by James Patterson
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!
James Patterson
I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
James Patterson
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
James Patterson
Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.
James Patterson
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.
James Patterson
Oz thinks I'm beautiful, she whispered to the stars.
James Patterson
You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?
James Patterson
Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry? I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh. I don't know, said Michael. Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
James Patterson
You stand out like a fart in a church.
James Patterson
Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff. Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.
James Patterson
It is my time. The time of maximum ride.
James Patterson
It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.
James Patterson
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.
James Patterson
I choose you, Max. -Fang
James Patterson
I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck.” I stared at her. “I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I have wings, lady! What were you thinking?
James Patterson
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.
James Patterson
The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.
James Patterson
I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.
James Patterson
Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.
James Patterson
He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. You looove me, he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, You love me this much.
James Patterson
