Latest James Patterson Quotes from Interviews

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• I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they changed [it from the book], I just want to look at it and go, "I loved that. That really turned out well."

  James Patterson

  Book, Movie Love, Looks

• I'm going to introduce BookShots, which are these under-150-page books that I'm launching, and they're under $5. They just launched in Australia. I already had a ton of content, but now add 50 books a year of content.

  James Patterson

  Book, Years, Australia

• 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.

  James Patterson

  Summer, Thinking, Giving

• My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, "That was great."

  James Patterson

  Tv Shows, Looks, Want

• A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

  James Patterson

  Summer, Thinking, People

• For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.

  James Patterson

  Zoos, Real, Animal

• When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."

  James Patterson

  Book, Hollywood, It Is What It Is

• For example, you go to Fuji, and there are no animal attacks. Why? And I think that gets you into the world of "The Walking Dead" or "Lost." Humans start doing some weird stuff.

  James Patterson

  Animal, Thinking, Walking Dead

• I saw the first episode of "The Walking Dead," and that's all I've seen. I thought it was good. I used to love zombies when I was little, but I don't like them the way I used to. I'm not knocking the show.

  James Patterson

  Walking Dead, Zombie, Littles

• 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

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• 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

  Source: www.usatoday.com