James Patterson
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661 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
James Patterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's all my autobiography.
It's just nothing but stories, one after the other.
And I found that
Because it was the autobiography and I was so invested in it and my passion was so good, I found that I was paying attention to writing sentences more than I had in a long time.
And my writing got better.
My writing in the last couple of years, I think, has been the best it's ever been.
And once again, it's that refining.
I'm paying more attention to the sentences, to the paragraphs, to the page, to the chapter.
Refining, refining, refining.
Yes.
At a certain point, you just have to say it's biscuits, meaning it's over now.
Yeah.
We could keep writing this forever, but we're not going to do that.
We're going to move on and do another book.
Yeah, sure.
For most writers.
There are a couple that for whatever reason, boy, they can spit it out and spit it out.
That first draft is pretty magical, but that's rare.
You know, when I go out and I speak, especially because we do a lot of philanthropic stuff
And I'll go to groups and a big group of librarians or teachers or whatever.
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