"My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way……" — James Patterson
"My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone."
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537 Quotes by James Patterson
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Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends,…
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Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.
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I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
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I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I…
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Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.
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Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of…
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Assume nothing, question everything.
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Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice…
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He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be…
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Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
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Home is wherever we all are together.
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Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had…
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Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was…
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I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I…
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
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When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by…
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You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
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I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such…
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I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that…
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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