Top 500 James Patterson Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.”

— James Patterson

302. “Grades don’t make the man, the man makes the grade.”

— James Patterson

303. “If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

— James Patterson

304. “Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.”

— James Patterson

305. “I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!”

— James Patterson

306. “That’d be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.”

— James Patterson

307. “Call me crazy, but there’s just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.”

— James Patterson

308. “Max-I’m not going to die today.”

— James Patterson

309. “I was always a good student, but I didn’t read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.”

— James Patterson

310. “My style is colloquial storytelling. It’s the way we tell stories to one another – it’s not writerly, it’s not overdone.”

— James Patterson

311. “Fair isn’t fair, Dean. Like I’m supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.”

— James Patterson

312. “Blood City III: The Massacre. I’d read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.”

— James Patterson

313. “I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.”

— James Patterson

314. “The Gasman leaned over and examined the tangled pile of stereo guts spread out on the kitchen table. “It looks like a robot came in here and threw up,” he observed.”

— James Patterson

315. “Don’t mistake the edge of a rut for the horizon.”

— James Patterson

316. “The next morning, Mom set two plates of scrambled eggs in front of me and Georgia and then sat down to watch us eat. She loves to watch us eat, which I totally don’t get. I mean, she works at a diner. She watches people eat all day long.”

— James Patterson

317. “Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.”

— James Patterson

318. “I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.”

— James Patterson

319. “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

320. “Uh, a honking big castle of evil in Germany?”

— James Patterson

321. “Here’s a freebie: Don’t play poker with a kid who can read minds.”

— James Patterson

322. “I don’t believe in lecturing people. It’s much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.”

— James Patterson

323. “Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.”

— James Patterson

324. “I knew how good love could be – I knew it was the best thing I’d ever done in my life – and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn’t.”

— James Patterson

325. “Delusional. Like Donald Trump with a comb.”

— James Patterson

326. “People always come up to me and say, ‘you should do standup.’ It’s nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.”

— James Patterson

327. “Yes. I owed my life, Angel’s life, and my mother’s life to a mutant’s ability to create industrial-strength snot.”

— James Patterson

328. “Actually, I’d already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang’s temperature right then.”

— James Patterson

329. “Memory is all I have now.”

— James Patterson

330. “Michelangelo didn’t show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath – when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway.”

— James Patterson

331. “If we had directions, it wouldn’t be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.”

— James Patterson

332. “Every once in a while, I’ll have a ‘Do you know who I am?’ moment, at least in my head. I hate that.”

— James Patterson

333. “It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you’re human popcorn.”

— James Patterson

334. “Time to die. -Evil Angel.”

— James Patterson

335. “Because today after all, is all we knew.”

— James Patterson

336. “Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat – like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.”

— James Patterson

337. “Here’s something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.”

— James Patterson

338. “Sometimes I’m dramatic even to myself.”

— James Patterson

339. “Somehow all troubles and cares seemed to diminish when you were with the people you loved. Then.”

— James Patterson

340. “Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.”

— James Patterson

341. “A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.”

— James Patterson

342. “A lot healthier than getting socked in the stomach. Especially if you had a big breakfast.”

— James Patterson

343. “There is truth in dreams, but especially in nightmares.”

— James Patterson

344. “I’m here to say that moonshine has nothing on love- and lust.”

— James Patterson

345. “Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn’t made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.”

— James Patterson

346. “Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.”

— James Patterson

347. “There’s nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you’ve got a good fit going.”

— James Patterson

348. “Think about it. When the end comes, will you be buried in the arms of the one you love? Of the one who knew you your whole life, who loved you your whole life? The only person who could really and truly love you like you needed to be loved? I hope so.”

— James Patterson

349. “All genders?” whispered Nudge. “Aren’t there just the two? Or did I miss something?” I shrugged. “No idea. Maybe they’ve created others.” The thought was fairly repulsive, and we made “eew” faces at each other.”

— James Patterson

350. “It doesn’t matter what the end looks like- what matters is that it came. Bam, you’re done. But life? There are degrees of life. You can live it well or half-asleep. You can go sledding down a sand dune, or you can spend your life in front of the TV. And i don’t mean to sound like a stupid after-school special, but you have to keep living the way we did these last weeks. Risk. That’s the secret. Risk everything.”

— James Patterson