James Patterson Quotes

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

  James Patterson

  Reality, Giving, Mind

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• You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

  James Patterson

  Reading, Thinking, Best Things

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• Bad stuff happens.
  Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair.
  Sometimes, it just plain sucks.
  Bad stuff happens sometimes.
  Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Moving

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• Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself

  James Patterson

  Giving, Depends

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• Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

  James Patterson

  Life, Memories, Special You

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• You are an endless project...changing, evolving, surprising.

  James Patterson

  Projects, Endless, Evolve

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• A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

  James Patterson

  Love, Night, Finding Someone

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• Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

  James Patterson

  Smart, Decision, Life Is

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• Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Mountain, Underestimate

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• Another day. Get up and face it.

  James Patterson

  Faces, Another Day, Get Up

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• What are we but our stories?

  James Patterson

  Stories

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

  James Patterson

  Grief, Loss, Ideas

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• Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

  James Patterson

  Brother, Sibling, Hug

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• Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

  James Patterson

  May, Might, Helping

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• I'm not Stubborn; I'm right!

  James Patterson

  Stubborn

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• But what is life if you don't live it?

  James Patterson

  What Is Life, Ifs

  James Patterson (2011). “Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Diaries, Want

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• Home is wherever we all are together.

  James Patterson

  Home, Together

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

  James Patterson

  Self Esteem, Food, Popcorn

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• I never miss a good chance to shut up

  James Patterson

  Cowboy, Silence, Missing

  James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

  James Patterson

  Smart, Humor, Two

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• Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

  James Patterson

  Life, New York, School

  James Patterson (2008). “Sundays at Tiffany's”, p.300, Random House

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