"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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James Patterson

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Years Quotes

“I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”
“I am very much against weapons in space.”
“To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.”
“It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.”
“We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin
“The only healing I’ve ever known is getting back in that race car — for all us racers.”
“It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.”
“I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.”

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