James Patterson Quotes

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

James Patterson

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Past

• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • You
  • Quality

• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Criticism

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Want
  • Water
  • Basically

• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Like
  • Watch
  • Essential

• I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books

• 'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Day

• Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

  

  U Thant
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Origin

• When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Love Is

• When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I was doing Marvel's 'Batman,' and Reverend Achebe became sort of the Joker to Panther's Batman.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Writing
  • Black
  • Angry

• Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Past

• You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Game

• If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

  

  James Patterson
  • Writing