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Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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Newburgh
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James Brendan Patterson
James B. Patterson
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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.
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Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. So, you kids want to be big stars, eh? God, no! I said spewing crumbs. No way! Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo.
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I write larger than life. It's what I do.
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If Fang is in any way harmed while I'm gone-if he gets a hangnail-you won't see another morning. Are we clear on that?
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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.
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My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.
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Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.
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Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. “Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.
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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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At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.
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Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.
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Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.
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Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.
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Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
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Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
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Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it. -Fang
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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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