Kellerman Quotes & Sayings

There's profit in law enforcement?" "I was thinking spiritually." - — Jonathan Kellerman

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond. — Sally Kellerman

Others declare good intentions — Jonathan Kellerman

Sleep. The ultimate resistance — Jonathan Kellerman

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on. — Sally Kellerman

We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice. — Jesse Kellerman

I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode. — Jesse Kellerman

O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma. — Jonathan Kellerman

once a week and doesn't do much when he is there. — Jonathan Kellerman

In general, the human race is still a young organism. — Jesse Kellerman

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180) — Jonathan Kellerman

Literally and figuratively. Balance is important to you — Jonathan Kellerman

Creighton tried to smile again. The result fit him like panty hose on a mastiff. — Jonathan Kellerman

That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right. — Jonathan Kellerman

People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record. — Jesse Kellerman

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky. — Faye Kellerman

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences. — Jesse Kellerman

I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship. — Jesse Kellerman

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life. — Jesse Kellerman

chefs, the Guatemalans, sometimes — Jonathan Kellerman

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature. — Jonathan Kellerman

atop his head a goofy skin cap simulating baldness and fringed with shoulder-length scraggle. — Jonathan Kellerman

True, my boy. Only Hashem is omniscient, and until He decides we're worthy of His communication via prophets or the Messiah, we mortals are forced to live in a state of ignorance. I've spent my whole life learning, Detective, acquiring knowledge not only from the scriptures of my belief, but from countless other sources - American law, philosophy, psychology, economics, political science: I have studied them all at great length. Yet, a madman can slip under my nose, and I realize I know nothing. I am still a meaningless speck of dust in the scheme of things. A most humbling experience. — Faye Kellerman

A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257) — Jonathan Kellerman

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. — Jonathan Kellerman

Maybe we're just prisoners of our biology. — Jonathan Kellerman

We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive. — Jonathan Kellerman

Made out a shape at the other end of the greenhouse, — Jonathan Kellerman

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. — Jonathan Kellerman

Do I think you're a sucker for her? I'd term it emotionally susceptible and yeah, you sure are. — Jonathan Kellerman

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. — Jonathan Kellerman

Maybe still waters did run deep. Or God on your side was the ultimate soul balm. — Jonathan Kellerman

In seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content. — Jesse Kellerman

Siblings are thrown together by chance. Anything from love to hate can follow. — Jonathan Kellerman

Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava. — Jonathan Kellerman

But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want. — Jonathan Kellerman

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre. — Jesse Kellerman

It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read. — Jesse Kellerman

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. — Jonathan Kellerman

I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179) — Jonathan Kellerman

When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home. — Jesse Kellerman

The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil. — Jonathan Kellerman

He sat down and said, "Thank you. — Jonathan Kellerman

It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different. — Jesse Kellerman

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella). — Jonathan Kellerman

Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents. — Jesse Kellerman

Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky. — Jesse Kellerman

Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo. — Jesse Kellerman

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic. — Jonathan Kellerman

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny. — Sally Kellerman

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth. — Barbara Kellerman

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. — Jonathan Kellerman

The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue. — Jonathan Kellerman

I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors
there are studies that show it
are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching. — Jonathan Kellerman

From Heartbreak Hotel:
(Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple"
"Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow — Jonathan Kellerman

Charisma is a mysterious and powerful thing. I have it in limited supply, and that which I do have functions under highly specialized conditions. — Jesse Kellerman

Keith Moon in Wembley, England, all facts attested to by the writing on the memorials. — Jonathan Kellerman

A second mouth, grinning across his neck. — Jonathan Kellerman

Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed. — Barbara Kellerman

-a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.
The Butcher's Theater — Jonathan Kellerman

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. — Faye Kellerman

Sometimes it was funny - the passion he put into each new phase. — Jonathan Kellerman

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. — Jonathan Kellerman

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. — Jonathan Kellerman

Than the first, so you could have a fairly recent crime. But that could also — Jonathan Kellerman

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing. — Jonathan Kellerman

I'll buy lunch."
"Not Hungry."
I laughed.
He said, "I can't stand when you do that."
"Do what?"
"Assume I'm ruled by my digestive system."
"God forbid," I said, "Want me to drive? Think T-bone. — Jonathan Kellerman

Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others. — Jonathan Kellerman

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents. — Jesse Kellerman

It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder. — Jonathan Kellerman

except sociopaths trying to sell me term insurance, home security, and lawn care. — Jonathan Kellerman

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that. — Sally Kellerman

No, I don't belong to a retirement community. — Sally Kellerman

The key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing. — Jonathan Kellerman

I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present. — Jesse Kellerman

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse. — Faye Kellerman

In matters of healing, the body initiates and the mind follows. — Jonathan Kellerman

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it. — Jonathan Kellerman

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career. — Sally Kellerman

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way. — Jonathan Kellerman

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time. — Sally Kellerman

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144) — Jonathan Kellerman

If dust was present, it was hiding in fear. — Jonathan Kellerman

When it's silent, your brain fills in the music," Decker told him. "After all these years, I think I've finally learned how to listen. — Faye Kellerman

Then, the stunningly white cubes that make up the Getty Museum. It's an architectural masterpiece funded by a venal billionaire's trust, housing third-rate art. Pure L.A.: might makes right and packaging is all. Traffic — Jonathan Kellerman

Home was where the heart was and Grace's heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own. — Jonathan Kellerman

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock. — Sally Kellerman

He's a minister. Seems nice. — Jonathan Kellerman

It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties. — Jonathan Kellerman

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you. — Jesse Kellerman

I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery. — Jesse Kellerman

I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household. — Jesse Kellerman

She'd heard he was some sort of karate honcho, occasionally — Jonathan Kellerman

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better. — Jesse Kellerman

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe. — Sally Kellerman

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk. — Sally Kellerman

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up. — Jonathan Kellerman

It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success. — Jesse Kellerman

Heights - an orange-vested Caltrans crew, stupidest agency in the state, taking petty-fascist satisfaction in blocking off two lanes. I sat, idling along with the Seville, rolled a foot or two, sat some more, finally got past La Cienega. Unmindful of the noise and the dirt. New focus: yearning to feel useful. — Jonathan Kellerman

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God. — Jonathan Kellerman