American - Author | March 22, 1947 -
There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.
James Patterson
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A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.
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I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.
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The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
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My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.
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I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.
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My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.
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There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.
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If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.
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I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.
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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
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I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
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