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Title: James Patterson – the best seller who doesn't write his own books
Quote:“The reason his literary output is so massive, at a rate of about one book a month, is that in most of his novels he doesn’t do the line-byline writing himself. He produces a treatment of 60 to 80 pages, establishing the plot and characters in detail, then hires a writer to turn it into a full-length book.”
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“Gilbert and Sullivan. Woodward and Bernstein. Stephen King and Peter Straub. Virtually any TV show there is. I’ll sometimes get on a TV show to be asked a question and they’ll be reading off a teleprompter from something they didn’t write. In my case I’ve always been a good storyteller. I’m very good at plot and characterisation but there are better stylists.”
