Top 500 James Patterson Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.”

— James Patterson

152. “It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.”

— James Patterson

153. “You have to respect your enemy. Never, ever underestimate them. The second you do, they’ll squash you. Be smart about them. Respect their abilities, even if they don’t respect yours.”

— James Patterson

154. “What I’m really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren’t competent readers coming out of middle school, it’s really going to be hard for them in high school.”

— James Patterson

155. “You know, I guess I just don’t like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?”

— James Patterson

156. “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

157. “Listen, street punk. You’re a guy, and you’re a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you’re in a gang. But I’ve survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?”

— James Patterson

158. “To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.”

— James Patterson

159. “The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways.”

— James Patterson

160. “So this is how “happy” feels, I thought. The energy, the automatic smile. This is what it’s like to look forward to the day, to believe there could be good things coming.”

— James Patterson

161. “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

162. “She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.”

— James Patterson

163. “I don’t believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman.”

— James Patterson

164. “The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.”

— James Patterson

165. “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

166. “A classroom. People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.”

— James Patterson

167. “I looked into her eyes. “Mom, who do you pray to?” I just pray, Daniel. That’s all.”

— James Patterson

168. “Is it important to be right or is it important to do what’s right? That’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.”

— James Patterson

169. “We’re just not cut out for all this media circus crap. But then, you already knew that.”

— James Patterson

170. “You’re your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don’t need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.”

— James Patterson

171. “A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.”

— James Patterson

172. “Fnick -Iggy.”

— James Patterson

173. “I don’t know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

175. “Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.”

— James Patterson

176. “Remembering pain is how you learn never to let the cause of it happen again.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

178. “I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.”

— James Patterson

179. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – A. Sachs.”

— James Patterson

180. “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

181. “We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.”

— James Patterson

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

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

— James Patterson

186. “Iggy: “I’ll grab a zebra; Gaz, you fill all the bubbles with your trademark scent. so people are choking and gagging; and let’s throw beef jerky in their eyes! Now, that’s a plan!”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

188. “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

189. “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

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

— James Patterson

191. “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

192. “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

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

— James Patterson

194. “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

195. “Three out of four voices inside my head say go for it.”

— James Patterson

196. “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

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

199. “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

200. “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