He does, and he also knows that he's not churning out anything resembling great literature. It's hard to hate Patterson, though, because a lot of the money he makes from his books gets turned around into support of independent bookstores, public libraries, and children's literacy programs.Plus doesn't James Patterson farm out most of his work like a sweatshop? He makes ideas and a bunch of writers make the books? He just slaps his name on them.