Quotes About Authorship

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

Here's a joke you can

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

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James Patterson

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.