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Writing Quotes by James Patterson
- If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to…
- Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
- A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really…
- I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a…
- I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy…
- I write larger than life. It's what I do.
- If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.
- I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each…
- I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of…
- I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars…
- In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some…
- 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.
- Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on your own. See…
- There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in…
- My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov