James Patterson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Stories, Want

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

  James Patterson

  Writing, Trying, Stories

• Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write.

  James Patterson

  Stupid, Writing, Bed

• I write larger than life. It's what I do.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Larger Than Life

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

  James Patterson

  Moving, Writing, Chapters

• A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

  James Patterson

  Falling In Love, Writing, People

• 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

• I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, Mind

• I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, Numbers

  "The Great Gatsby : But First, a Word From Viagra" by Marie Woolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

• The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Paris, Fans

• I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, School

  "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.

• I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.

  James Patterson

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

• I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Blow, Car

• 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.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

• I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Joy, Four

• In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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