Top 500 James Patterson Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.”

— James Patterson

152. “It’s better to care too much than too little. Every single time.”

— James Patterson

153. “Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.”

— James Patterson

154. “Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.”

— James Patterson

155. “The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it’s free.”

— James Patterson

156. “Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.”

— James Patterson

157. “Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things – don’t leave your socks lying around – but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.”

— James Patterson

158. “Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that’s a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I’d say has served my books well.”

— James Patterson

159. “I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.”

— James Patterson

160. “Yes,” I said. “My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.”

— James Patterson

161. “If you’re in the room, I want to be next to you. If you’re gone, I think about you. You’re who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we’re together the sun is shining. When we’re apart, everything is in shades of gray.”

— James Patterson

162. “Some kids get called ‘bundles of joy’ or ‘slices of heaven’ or ‘dreams come true.’ We got ‘the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.’ Doesn’t have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I’m oversensitive.”

— James Patterson

163. “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

164. “Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.”

— James Patterson

165. “I like that old country song? A good-hearted woman in love with a good-timing man?”

— James Patterson

166. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.”

— James Patterson

167. “The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.”

— James Patterson

168. “Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn’t help myself.”

— James Patterson

169. “Which means what?” I demanded. “That I’m nothing? That I’m not a person? That you can do anything you want to me and it’s okay? You’re so full of it! But you’re wrong. I know that I do matter. I am important. And you’re a pathetic, cold, pointless wastoid who’s going to grow old alone and die, then roast in limbo forever.”

— James Patterson

170. “What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage?”

— James Patterson

171. “I won’t lie to you – it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.”

— James Patterson

172. “I am not a great prose stylist. I’m a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don’t like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.”

— James Patterson

173. “Se Souvenir de Moi. Remember Me.”

— James Patterson

174. “It’s funny how different people are. If I’d been this kid and someone was snarling “Ordering a pizza?” at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back “Yeah. You want pepperoni?” -Maximum Ride.”

— James Patterson

175. “People underestimating me is my secret weapon.”

— James Patterson

176. “Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.”

— James Patterson

177. “It is my time. The time of maximum ride...”

— James Patterson

178. “Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!”

— James Patterson

179. “Excellent. They were flammable.”

— James Patterson

180. “When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn’t want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.”

— James Patterson

181. “How could you stop loving me?”

— James Patterson

182. “There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their ‘not invented here’ and ‘we have more important problems than education’ attitudes.”

— James Patterson

183. “I’m a freaking princess when it comes to other people’s feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max.”

— James Patterson

184. “I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.”

— James Patterson

185. “How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it’s a good place to die?”

— James Patterson

186. “Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.”

— James Patterson

187. “I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb’s presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.”

— James Patterson

188. “Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies.”

— James Patterson

189. “When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else’s looks fabulous.”

— James Patterson

190. “Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina’s breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.”

— James Patterson

191. “I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it’s a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”

— James Patterson

192. “What is a lie? It’s a distortion of reality, presented as reality.”

— James Patterson

193. “Never fight fair – that’s not how you win. Use every dirty trick you can, Expect pain. Expect to get hurt. If you’re surprised by the pain, you just lost.”

— James Patterson

194. “Every day from the crack of dawn,” he said- and i completed the rest, “until we can’t keep our eyes open one second longer.”

— James Patterson

195. “Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.”

— James Patterson

196. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.”

— James Patterson

197. “WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious – but it’s all I can say right now.”

— James Patterson

198. “What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN’T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That’s what he did.”

— James Patterson

199. “To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt.”

— James Patterson

200. “Fang was going to kill me. And after I was dead, he would kill me again.”

— James Patterson