James Patterson Quotations | Page 5

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!

Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger I could never be as fangalicious as you'd want me to be.-Fang

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right?

An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.