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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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Film Producer
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Television Producer
Newburgh
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James Brendan Patterson
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The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.
James Patterson
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.
James Patterson
Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.
James Patterson
Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now, and they're not giving the summer to cable anymore.
James Patterson
A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.
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
Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.
James Patterson
It’s wherever you are. If it’s tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you’re doing.” Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn’t considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? “Even in the bathroom?” the Gasman’s eyes widened with surprise.
James Patterson
Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.
James Patterson
...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.
James Patterson
Man, you weigh a freaking ton, he told me. What've you been eating, rocks? Why, is your head missing some? I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been
James Patterson
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.
James Patterson
Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. He needs a Band-Aid, I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me.
James Patterson
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.
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
I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.
James Patterson
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.
James Patterson
We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day.
James Patterson
Iggy: Now what? Who you gonna call? A quiet voice in the hallway outside: Ghostbusters! (Captain Perry and John groan) John: That phrase is ruined forever.
James Patterson
But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works
James Patterson