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James Patterson
James Patterson
American Author
Born: Mar 22, 1947
About Books Love People Reading You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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. James Patterson
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Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong? James Patterson
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People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't. James Patterson
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The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another. James Patterson
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This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.' James Patterson
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My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son. James Patterson
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Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well. James 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. James Patterson
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I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. James Patterson
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Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? James Patterson
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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. James Patterson
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I don't think of myself as a writer. James Patterson
Myself Think Writer
The more you read, the better you get at it. James Patterson
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I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too. James Patterson
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I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse. James Patterson
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This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham. James Patterson
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It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it. James Patterson
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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. James Patterson
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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. James Patterson
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If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead. James Patterson
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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. James Patterson
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Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts. James Patterson
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I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water. James Patterson
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I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those. James Patterson
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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. James Patterson
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My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone. James Patterson
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