James Patterson Quotes

Stevie Kosgrov recently enjoyed a bowl of Fruity Pebbles (with milk that had hit its expiration date, oh, maybe a month ago).

Stevie Kosgrov punched me just like I was a regular, normal kid

So anyway, ta-da, here it is, book fans, and all of you in need of AR points at school,

SHUT UP! I yelled all the way down the hall. FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, JUST SHUT YOUR STUPID NOSY MOUTH!

Quote from James Patterson's book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you'r...

People Trust Me with their secrets, and I'm not sure why. It must be something in my face, probably my eyes.

Part 5The Voice-Make that my voice

Okay, so how, exactly, did I get into this mess—up onstage at a comedy club, baking like a bag of French fries under a hot spotlight that shows off my sweat stains( including one that sort of looks li...

Okay, smartyboots, how about if you’re flying at eighteen thousand feet at, say, a hundred and forty miles an hour, I said. You’re facing a southwest wind of about seven knots. How long would it take...

Now Mom was working double shifts at the diner all the time just to make enough money, and Bear was spending 99 percent of his time on our couch, except maybe to go to the bathroom or to collect his s...

Now I have a shot at being the Planet’s Funniest Kid Comic. The planet Earth? asks Phineas of—you guessed it—Phineas and Ferb. Or Mars? We built a portal to Mars for the science fair once.

No one ever leaves alive The house at 7 Ocean Drive

My name’s J.J., she said, seeming completely comfortable with this social interaction. My palms were sweating. It’s short for Jennifer Joy. I mean, what were my parents thinking?

Le secret pour rester en vie? Ne jamais cesser de respirer.

Justice doesn’t necessarily make the world a better place. Compassion always does.’ I

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...

I can see why you, sir, are the champ. You bully without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, or physical abilities. You are an equal-opportunity tormentor.

Excerpt from Alert copyright © James Patterson, 2015

A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene. The latest Pearl Jam played from somebody’s radio. The lead singer seemed to be in terrible pain.

I decided that every rule in the Hills Village Middle School Code of Conduct should be worth a certain number of points, depending on how hard it was to break. Of course, this meant I could get into s...