Quotes from James Patterson

a steady, drenching stream. The pigs were going berserk in response, all trying to follow the rain

But this felt hideously intrusive, totally out of line.

with all these serial killer Waynes, anyway? Wayne Williams. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Patrick Wayne Hearney, who dismembered thirty-two human beings on the West Coast.

FEMA had a "Waffle House index" with which it determined how damaged a community was after a hurricane or tornado passed through it. The sooner the local Waffle House opens after a natural disaster, the quicker a local community would recover.

Kit in the bough of the tree.

CHILDREN FIRST. GROW WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED. SUCCESS COMES IN CANS, NOT CANNOTS.

My name is Rafe Khatchadorian. You killed my father. Prepare to die!

But when the truck straightened out and began to gain speed, I was still holding on. I tapped the window with the Colt. The passenger was that same guy who'd given me the glowering look at the top of the pass into Hog Hollow.

Louisville Slugger.

You know the axiom that men don't like women who threaten them because they're too smart?

Here it was in all its glory: the CIA, the avenging angel of U.S. foreign policy.

HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE.

Life experience?" I repeated tightly. "Big picture? I've had more life experience in fourteen years than you've had in — what are you, like, a hundred?

I pressed my face into my pillow and squelched some extracolorful words. Way to go, ace — have embarrassing personal thoughts while you're two feet from a mind reader.

We would get to study you, frankly," said a tall, lean man who, I kid you not, looked just like Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Nope," said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church." "Appropriately enough," I muttered.

Merci pour tout les aides.

He pointed into the pizza box, and when I looked closely, I could see a tiny bit of green wire sticking out from under the thick Sicilian crust.

Me and my merry band of mutant bird kids.

I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful.

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.'