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Better readers are better thinkers.

James Patterson

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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James Brendan Patterson
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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.
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If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us, I said. Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.
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You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.
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Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself
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I wouldn’t trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.”-max
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Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open. Have you been watching Oprah again?
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Fang, fang. I love you. I looooove you. I love you thiiiiiiiiiis much!
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Great, they give blind kids guns, I said, trying to lessen his horror. I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.
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I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
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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.
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Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself
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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.
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Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
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Oz thinks I'm beautiful, she whispered to the stars.
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Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.
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SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers? Those are things I'm not good at. Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something? Piece o'cake
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Fang: Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?
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What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do
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How could you stop loving me?
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...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.
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