James Patterson
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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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Amazing.
Anything to add, Patrick?
Thank you.
Great pleasure.
This was great.
Thank you, Patrick.
You're the best.
It's a beautiful day. I just left the beach, one o'clock in the afternoon or something. And it was like five mile an hour traffic. It was hideous. And on the other side of the road, about every 15 seconds, a car went by, whoosh. And I watched this for about an hour or so. And here was this object lesson. And it occurred to me that I'm on the wrong damn side of the highway.
And my whole life is on the wrong side of the highway. And I got to get on the other side.
Today, I'm talking with James Patterson, the best-selling author of all time, like in the history of the whole world, kind of, with over 400 million books sold.
In this episode, we dig into creativity, idea generation, thoughts on writing for the masses, what keeps people's attention, writer's block, literacy, his writing process, and a whole lot more. He was actually really engaged and engaging on this episode, and I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
I don't know what vacation is. I keep hearing that word, but I don't know what it means. My life is a vacation in the sense that I don't work for a living. I play for a living. So that's the vacation part of it.
Yes, that was one time we went out. It was so bizarre. This golf course was covered with seagull turds.
No, no, no. You'd lay them out flat. It's not like you're going to drive them into the ground. At any rate, one funny story about that was my friend and I, we were at a public golf course in New York. This was a little before Christmas. And our thing was, if you wouldn't mind taking a walk that day, it would be fine. And we'd go out there and hit some balls. And we got around the third hole.
It started snowing. And by about the sixth hole, you couldn't putt, I mean, because the ball just wouldn't go anywhere. So we're laughing, and that's why we're not taking it very seriously. So we'll just play nine, and we were proud of ourselves because it was already a couple inches on the ground. And as we were going into the clubhouse, there were four guys walking out to the first tee.
One guy goes, Marty, you think we'll get an 18?
All right. OK. All right. Let's go.
I don't know. I've never really figured out. I guess in theory it seems obnoxious to do it. But I guess in theory you could say doctor or whatever. You can just go online and get a doctor. You could probably buy one cheap. You could be a minister now, and you can do that.
Character development. Yeah, well, you know, it's a tough audience.
They'll tend to go into a little historical angle or sociological or whatever, which you don't get as much. What I was really talking about is you go on the road and I don't blame them. You're in wherever Grand Rapids or somewhere. It's a four minute piece and they're not going to read the book for the four minute thing. I get it. So you do get, so James, you got a new book. Tell us about it.
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