James Patterson
person on 5 shows · 6 statements across 3 episodes · said 41 times in 6 episodes since 2017
My First Million 23 
Top Founders 9 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 7 
We Live to Build 1 
Capital Allocators 1
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Parr: James Patterson sold 500M books and 6% of US hardcovers
“At this point, he sold something like five hundred million copies of his books. And at one point, he accounted for 16%, or sorry, six percent of all hardcover novels sold in America.”
Parr: James Patterson publishes around 30 books per year
“Since he started writing about 48 years ago, he's published on average Seven books a year. And at this point, even though he's 75 or 74, he's doing something like 30 books a year.”
James Patterson has solely written only 20% of his credited books.
“He actually has only written about 20%, like solely written 20% of the books that his name is, is credited with as writing.”
Druckman: Professional writers focus on word counts rather than waiting for inspiration
“I think that's the difference between a amateur writer and a professional writer is Amateurs sometimes have this idea that we're going to get inspiration. So I'm just going to sit here and wait for inspiration. Like it's going to be a ray coming down from the …”
MasterClass debuted with courses by Dustin Hoffman, James Patterson, and Serena Williams
“We had three classes up. Dustin Hoffman. James, James. James Patterson and Sir, it was Sir. Serena Williams.”