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• The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

  James Patterson

  Moving On, Nice, Laughing

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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

  James Patterson

  Smart, Humor, Two

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• Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

  James Patterson

  Life, New York, School

  James Patterson (2008). “Sundays at Tiffany's”, p.300, Random House

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

  James Patterson

  Life, Unrequited Love, Want Something

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Hate, Home

  James Patterson, Peter De Jonge (2011). “Miracle on the 17th Green”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

  James Patterson

  Grandmother, Two, Today

  James Patterson (2011). “Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.

  James Patterson

  Said, Ready

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• I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

  James Patterson

  Life Is, Complicated, Plans

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.

  James Patterson

  Dirty, Pigs, Likes

  James Patterson (2001). “1st to Die”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• Assume nothing, question everything.

  James Patterson

  Assuming, Assume Nothing

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• I'm not Stubborn; I'm right!

  James Patterson

  Stubborn

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• If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

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• 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

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

  James Patterson

  Buttons, Pushing, Helping

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• Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

  James Patterson

  Dream, Sometimes, Dies

  James Patterson, Peter De Jonge (2011). “Miracle on the 17th Green”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• 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

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• I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

  James Patterson

  Mean, Compassion, People

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• An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.

  James Patterson

  Hurt, Swings, Tree

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• I love you, i love your smile your snarl your grin, your face when your sleeping.I love your hair streaming behind you as we fly, with the sunlight making it shine, if it doesn't have too much mud or blood in it, I love seeing your wings spreading out, white and brown and tan and speckled, and the tiny downy feathers right at the top of your shoulders. I love your eyes, whether they're cold or calculating or suspicious or laughing or warm, like when you look at me.

  James Patterson

  Love You, Sleep, Eye

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• 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

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• A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Fall, Boys

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• When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Stories, Want

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• If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.

  James Patterson

  Fighting, Thinking, Shining

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction”, p.306, Random House

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• WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

  James Patterson

  Stories, Warning, Dare

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• 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

  Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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