Richard North Patterson Quotes

• Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

  Richard North Patterson

  Libro, Escritura, Simple

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• Escribir es reescribir. Un escritor debe aprender a profundizar en los personajes, recortar la escritura, intensificar las escenas. Enamorarse del primer borrador hasta el punto de no poder cambiarlo es aumentar enormemente las perspectivas de no publicar nunca.

  Richard North Patterson

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

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• The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like painting by the numbers, they often remain stick figures. They will never take on a life of their own. The most exciting thing is when you find a character doing something surprising or unplanned. Like a character saying to me: ‘Hey, Richard, you may think I work for you, but I don’t. I’m my own person.’

  Richard North Patterson

  Moving, Character, Thinking

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• Nadie debe ser juzgado por el peor momento de su vida.

  Richard North Patterson

  Worst Moments, Should, Judged

  Richard North Patterson (2011). “In the Name of Honour”, p.325, Pan Macmillan

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• Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.

  Richard North Patterson

  Problema

  Richard North Patterson (2010). “In the Name of Honor”, p.288, Macmillan

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• Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every major character who lives there. I'm not suggesting that one always has to go this far. But I truly believe what makes the setting for my novels come alive is that I've lived there first.

  Richard North Patterson

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

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• Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

  Richard North Patterson

  Trabajo, Escribir, Pensar

  Richard North Patterson (2011). “The Final Judgment”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.

  Richard North Patterson

  Country, Blow, Interrogation Techniques

  Richard North Patterson (2012). “The Devil's Light: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

  Richard North Patterson

  Past, Ruling

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• The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

  Richard North Patterson

  Writing, Situation

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• I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

  Richard North Patterson

  Years, Firsts, Quitting

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• The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

  Richard North Patterson

  Manhattan, Flaws, Stranger

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• Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

  Richard North Patterson

  Ambition, Leader, Insecurity

  Richard North Patterson (2011). “In the Name of Honour”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.

  Richard North Patterson

  Stupid, Combination

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• The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.

  Richard North Patterson

  Finals, Matter, Judgment

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