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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with ‘Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life’, it was fun to let loose. James Patterson Read Quote
I didn’t care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics. James Patterson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My favorite books are actually very complicated – ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, ‘Ulysses’. James Patterson Read Quote
There are a lot of things we as individuals can’t do much about. We can’t solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that. James Patterson Read Quote
