James Patterson famous quotes

maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside
-- James Patterson

#Heart #True Beauty #Emotion

You're lucky if you find something you like to do, and it's a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.
-- James Patterson

#Miracle #Lucky #Pay

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
-- James Patterson

#Motivational #Life And Love #Integrity

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

#Book #Reading #Years

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
-- James Patterson

#Love #Night #Finding Someone

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.
-- James Patterson

#Grief #Loss #Ideas

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.
-- James Patterson

#Reality #Giving #Mind

It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
-- James Patterson

#Said #Ready

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.
-- James Patterson

#Self Esteem #Food #Popcorn

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
-- James Patterson

#Reading #Thinking

So you have your price. Your soul for a cookie.
-- James Patterson

#Soul #Cookies #Your Soul

Better readers are better thinkers.
-- James Patterson

#Thinker #Reader

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
-- James Patterson

#Life #Unrequited Love #Knowing

If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
-- James Patterson

#Stupid #Reading #Book

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
-- James Patterson

#Mother #Cat #Two

Yes!” said Fang, punching the air. “Freaks rule.
-- James Patterson

#Air #Punching #Freak

Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.
-- James Patterson

#Strong #Delight #Teeth

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.
-- James Patterson

#Smart #Humor #Two

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
-- James Patterson

#Fun #Believe #Reading

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
-- James Patterson

#Death #Funny Things #Perspective

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
-- James Patterson

#Mom #Mother #Brother

I never miss a good chance to shut up
-- James Patterson

#Missing #Chance #Shut Up

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.
-- James Patterson

#Book #Writing #School

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

#Book #Writing #Thinking

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.
-- James Patterson

#Appreciate #Cookies

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
-- James Patterson

#Maximum Ride #Wells #Distress

Love means never having to be apart
-- James Patterson

#Mean #Love Means

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.
-- James Patterson

#Moving #Mountain #Underestimate

Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.” And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? I’m alive too.” Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.
-- James Patterson

#Ice #Wind #Hair

Excuse me? I'm alive too.
-- James Patterson

#Alive #Maximum Ride #Excuse

living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out
-- James Patterson

#Beautiful #Beach #Live Life

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.
-- James Patterson

#Wings #Dancer #Ballet

Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn’t dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the same to him; therefore, Max was still in it.
-- James Patterson

#Max #World #Cold

I hate this guy,” Ari muttered, keeping his head down “There’s a club,” I told him. “The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?
-- James Patterson

#Hate #Guy #Clubs

Sighing, she gave a brief nod. “I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didn’t kill me. It was awful.” “You’re welcome,” I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. “I’ll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time.” (Max II to Max)
-- James Patterson

#Winning #Feelings #Trying

What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)
-- James Patterson

#Girl #Want #Max

Fang’s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair again, so softly, and then trailed across my neck and shoulder and down my back, making me shiver. I looked up. “What the heck are you doing?” “Helping you change your mind,” he whispered, and then he leaned over, tilted my chin up, and kissed me.
-- James Patterson

#Hair #Hands #Mind

We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.
-- James Patterson

#Lame #Threatening #Imaginative

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if I’d been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?
-- James Patterson

#Mom #Heart #Mean

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.
-- James Patterson

#Brain #Very Sad

Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here]," said Fang stunned.
-- James Patterson

#Choices #Maximum Ride #Holy

I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max
-- James Patterson

#Princess #People #Feelings

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?
-- James Patterson

#Beautiful #Feelings #Bed

He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.
-- James Patterson

#Hate #Blind #Break