List of Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

I Don't Practice, But I Am Still Officially In Paediatrics. I Keep In Touch With Journals, And I Have A Very Good Data Bank Of Medical Information And There Is A Key Thing For A Writer Knowing Where To Go. I Know Where To Go To Get The Information That I Need.

Time Spent Researching Varies From Book To Book. Some Novels Require Months, Even Years Of Research, Others Very Little. I Try To Do Most Of My Research Before I Begin But Inevitably Questions Emerge During The Writing.

Whatever Fame A Novelist My Attain, It's Always Kind Of An Anonymous One. I Can Go Anywhere, And No One Knows Who I Am.

His Experience And Training Should Have Taught Him That Families Are The Cauldrons In Which Violence Is Brewed. (144)

It Didn't Feel Difficult At The Time Because I Was So Charged Up About Both Books. Afterward, However, I Was Pretty Tired. In A Good Way, Like After A Great Workout.

Without Sounding Pompous, I Really Do Feel That I Have A Set Of Standards That I Must Adhere To, Even Leaving Aside Considerations Of What The Readers Expect.

Government Is Like Junior High. Your Status Depends Upon Whom You're Able To Persecute.

The Stress Of Grad School Can Drive Anyone Temporarily Mad.

The Characters Emerge From My Rather Twisted Mind. That's Another Enjoyable Part Of The Job Making Stuff Up.

At First, When A Child Meets Something That Scares Him, The Fear Grows, Like A Wave. But When He Goes Into The Water And Swims - Gets Used To The Water - The Wave Grows Small. If We Pull The Child Away When The Wave Is High, He Never Sees That, Never Learns How To Swim And Remains Afraid. If He Gets A Chance To Feel Strong, In Control, That's Called Coping. When He Copes, He Feels Better.

40 Words For Sorrow Is Brilliant-one Of The Finest Crime Novels I've Ever Read. Giles Blunt Writes With Uncommon Grace, Style And Compassion And He Plots Like A Demon. This Book Has It All-unforgettable Characters, Beautiful Language, Throat-constricting Suspense.

I Spent The First Few Years Of My Life In A Smallish Community In Queens. Back In Those Early Days, Kids Could Roam The Streets With Relatively Little Supervision And One Place I Visited Frequently Was The Local Library. This Particular Branch Was Little More Than A Storefront But To Me It Was An Alternative Universe Where I Could Explore My Interests And Receive Kind, Informative Answers To My Questions From The Wonderful Librarians.