"Stop trying to write sentences and start trying……" — James Patterson
"Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories."
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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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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
— John Banville
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's…
— Lewis Black
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk.…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from…
— Anthony Bourdain
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
— Albert Brooks
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
— Geraldine Brooks
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo…
— Jackson Browne
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
— Charles Bukowski
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