Millions Quote by James Patterson

I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and…

— David Farland

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…

— James Patterson

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them…

— Paul Sparks

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem to have…

— Leonard Ray Teel

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

I like people to be honest and transparent. It bothers me when people feel the need to embellish stories to make themselves look better.

— Jordan Fisher

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

— James Patterson

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

— Clive Cussler