I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.
James PattersonIf my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, โShe drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,โ you would be right. But I bet you didnโt guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.
James PattersonTotal?" I called. He looked up alertly, then ran over to me, small pink tongue hanging out. Total?" I said when he was close. "Can you talk?" He flopped down on the grass, panting slightly. "Yeah. So?" Jeezum. I mean, mutant weirdos are nothing new to me, you know? But a talking dog?
James PattersonIf 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