My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.
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 PattersonLife is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.
James PattersonTo be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.
James PattersonWalking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony." Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?" "Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert," Iggy said truthfully.
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