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I don't think of myself as a writer.

James Patterson

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
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I'm a very good storyteller I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
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There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
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For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.
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If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.
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Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
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I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe. p. 155
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happy all life for ever
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Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.
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You love me this much.
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Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.
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Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max
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You were designed to be very smart, Max, she told me. We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing. And yet I still can't program my DVD player, I said.
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If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.
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Better readers are better thinkers.
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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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Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
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Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?
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Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman.
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Fang, I said, my voice breaking. Just live, okay? Live and be okay. With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his mouth, just like that. Ow, he said, touching his split lip, then he and I stared at each other in shock.
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