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People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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James Brendan Patterson
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Angel is right,said Dr. G-H quickly. This is my clumsy way of demonstrating. Demonstrating what? I was barely able to keep a snarl out of my voice. How to get yourself beat up in one easy step?
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They call me, The Sharkalator
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I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.
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Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.
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It's okay, Ig. said Fang. Just give it your best shot. Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.
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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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Do I open it? Do I open it? Of course I freaking open it!
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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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It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
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You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.
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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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A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
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Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.
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Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.
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It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
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Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.
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I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.
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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 believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
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