James Patterson quote: "Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?"

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that....
A.J. STYLES

There's so many kids who only know me from the video game. And they want to know if I'm home...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to...
SHARON JONES

We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no ma...
KEKE PALMER

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you inves...
ADRIANNE PALICKI

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp...
STEVE JOBS

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going o...
CHARISMA CARPENTER

When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and sp...
ANDERSON PAAK

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and e...
SHAWN MENDES

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au...
ADAM PALLY

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' proc...
DAVID ARCHULETA

I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit...
TERRY WOGAN

ABC Family is really restructuring their network because there's a new kind of family, so I thin...
MATT DALLAS

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think...
MATTHEW PERRY

I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good fo...
PAUL DANO

I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I...
CASSIE STEELE

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'...
LOUIS C. K.

What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irrespo...
BILL O'REILLY

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the oppo...
PETER GUBER

All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love s...
CAMILA CABELLO

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They'r...
BENNY BLANCO

All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It&#...
ALICE EVE

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's...
VIVIENNE MING

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recogni...
WALTER MURCH

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that...
STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS

I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if ...
ASAP ROCKY

There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're will...
KRIS JENNER

People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happ...
KASKADE

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as th...
TOM HEINSOHN

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. ...
COREY TAYLOR

I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#...
KELLY MASTERSON

And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a...
BILLY GARDELL

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactl...
JONAH HILL

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're bas...
STEVE JOBS

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what ...
PAUL RYAN

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ...
NAOMI WATTS

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what tha...
DYLAN MORAN

I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no ...
A. J. COOK

A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they ...
COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they sho...
EWAN MCGREGOR

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they'...
LINDSAY LOHAN

It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And...
RACHEL TUCKER

I like Taylor Swift a lot. She has really fun, catchy songs. It's so funny: I always say any guy...
ROZONDA THOMAS

I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s...
BILLY CONNOLLY

It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a n...
ZHANG XIN

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I&...
TIM BURTON

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are use...
KID CUDI

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read eve...
HELENA MATTSSON

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT

As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, m...
JAMES WAN

One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What&#...
DUFF GOLDMAN

There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy fl...
FINN JONES

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lo...
ZOSIA MAMET

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an...
TIMOTHY F. CAHILL

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a ...
MEG ROSOFF

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I hav...
FAITH RINGGOLD

There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my lif...
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS

I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sin...
ZARA LARSSON

The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think ...
PADDY CONSIDINE

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's ...
MAC MILLER

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's lif...
DICK CLARK

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ...
AARON PAUL

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't...
MISSY ELLIOTT

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone...
TODD BARRY

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photogr...
PAUL EMSLEY

The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an ...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR.

A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people ...
TIG NOTARO

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do,...
KATE JACKSON

Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. ...
BARRETT FOA

When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, an...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don&#...
MAGGIE Q

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes ...
FAITH RINGGOLD

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There&#...
MARGARET CHO

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it ...
IGGY AZALEA

What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immed...
CASS SUNSTEIN

I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. Af...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU

BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy ...
TERRY WOGAN

The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Mo...
CHANNING TATUM

Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So ...
AISHA TYLER

It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a conc...
HOWIE MANDEL

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think...
FAITH EVANS

At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talk...
FINN WITTROCK

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wrac...
AARON ASHMORE

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, ...
LOUIS C. K.

I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the be...
ANDIE MACDOWELL

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a...
JAMES PATTERSON

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent ch...
SELMA BLAIR

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondl...
JONI MITCHELL

I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th...
MAIARA WALSH

I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people...
BEBE REXHA

Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

Copied!

James Patterson

Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

James Patterson

Share:

Related

More James Patterson