Books Quotes by James Patterson

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

— James Patterson

Better readers are better thinkers.

— James Patterson

The more you read, the better you get at it.

— James Patterson

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

— James Patterson

That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

— James Patterson

Anybody who wants to take a quick beach trip out there should sit down with the book.

— James Patterson

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

— James Patterson

It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

— James Patterson

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the…

— James Patterson

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

— James Patterson

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

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

— James Patterson

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out.…

— James Patterson

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them…

— James Patterson

“books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with…

— James Patterson

The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,…

— James Patterson

With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids'…

— James Patterson

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around…

— James Patterson

One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and…

— James Patterson

I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they…

— James Patterson

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big…

— James Patterson

In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or…

— James Patterson

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right…

— James Patterson

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to…

— James Patterson

The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which…

— James Patterson

I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and…

— James Patterson

Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a…

— James Patterson

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment.…

— James Patterson

“HYSTERICAL HISTORY Bumping into Vincent O’Neil makes me think about what Uncle Frankie said. I need new material for Boston, not Vincent’s…

— James Patterson

“Quote from James Patterson's book "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" "Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The…

— James Patterson

As I do with all of my books, I outlined The Beach House from the beginning to end.

— James Patterson

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make…

— James Patterson

“I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because…

— James Patterson

I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.…

— James Patterson

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific…

— James Patterson

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but…

— James Patterson

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality…

— James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is…

— James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean,…

— James Patterson

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read…

— James Patterson