'What I Learned from James Patterson'

Here's an interesting concept for writers, from Shelf Awareness.

"What I learned from [James Patterson] is that you can't be self-indulgent. Even the most literary book has to be a page turner. You're not accomplishing anything by writing something that's hard to read."--Peter de Jonge, who co-wrote several books with Patterson and whose first solo novel, Shadows Still Remain (Harper, $25.99, 9780061373541/0061373540), was just published, in the New York Times.