Top 500 James Patterson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Call me crazy, but there’s just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.”

— James Patterson

302. “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

303. “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

304. “Maybe you’ll learn something about life beyond Batman.”

— James Patterson

305. “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

306. “It wasn’t because the lions were particularly hungry. The humans had been nothing compared to the eighteen-hundred-pound Cape buffalo, the pride’s more typical prey. The cars had been like boxes full of snacks.”

— James Patterson

307. “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

308. “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

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

— James Patterson

310. “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

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

— James Patterson

312. “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

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

318. “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

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

— James Patterson

320. “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

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

— James Patterson

322. “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

323. “Memory is all I have now.”

— James Patterson

324. “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

325. “I’m sure some of you get sent to your rooms sometimes by your parents. All I have to say is, the next time it happens and you’re lying there all mad thinking about how hard your life is, just picture me standing next to you, ready to smack you upside the head. When I get sent to my room, it’s in a freaking dungeon! With rats!”

— James Patterson

326. “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

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

329. “Time to die. -Evil Angel.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

332. “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

333. “Regret is a waste of time.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

336. “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

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

— James Patterson

338. “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

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

341. “It was all I could do to not give a mwa ha ha ha!”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

343. “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

344. “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

345. “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

346. “I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.”

— James Patterson

347. “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

348. “She sucks in her breath and lets the flames race along the comforter until they lick her and swallow her whole.”

— James Patterson

349. “This was the weird part with me and Miller. We both hated each other, but even more than that, he wanted my money and I wanted my notebook back. Neither of us had said anything about it to Stricker, even when we both got suspended. It was like middle school Mafia or something.”

— James Patterson

350. “Rafe was trying to convince an older couple that they needed an extra toilet.”

— James Patterson