Kellerman Quotes

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

If women are choosing not to run the world, it's partly because men are choosing not to run the washer and dryer. ~ Barbara Kellerman

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

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing. ~ Sally 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

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

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

There's profit in law enforcement?" "I was thinking spiritually." - ~ 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

That was the thing about knowing people's secrets: It could make them not like you. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) ~ 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

I didn't want to do it ... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years! ~ Sally Kellerman

Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. - ~ 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

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

A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not. ~ Max Kellerman

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

A cake can be very life-affirming. ~ Faye Kellerman

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns. ~ Jesse Kellerman

A second mouth, grinning across his neck. ~ Jonathan 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

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

had nothing to do so she just sat there. The boys ignored her and continued to eat, slowly but without pause, like robots. The eggs looked stiff and rubbery and Grace already knew what Ramona's ~ Jonathan Kellerman

What if food really was love and world peace could be a reality? ~ Jonathan Kellerman

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us ... but they're still fucking psychopaths. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations. ~ Barbara 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

If you couldn't get the outcome you wanted, torture 'em with process. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes ... I can't do it, so why bother trying? ~ Jesse Kellerman

Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

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

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk. ~ Sally 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

Psychopaths, skillful as they are at manipulating others, have trouble with emotional regulation and generally screw up at either extreme: theatrical histrionics or cold stoicism. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

There were nights when I left the sessions physically and emotionally drained after hearing the anguish pour out like blood from a gaping wound. Don't let anyone ever tell you different – psychotherapy is one of the most taxing endeavors known to mankind; I've done all sorts of work, from picking carrots in the scorching sun to sitting on national committees in paneled board rooms, and there's nothing that compares to confronting human misery hour after hour and bearing the responsibility for easing that misery using only one's mind and mouth. At its best it's tremendously uplifting as you watch the patient open up, breathe, let go of the pain. At its worst is like surfing in a cesspool struggling for balance while being slapped with wave after putrid wave. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute. ~ 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

-Nice concept.
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God - she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, and her deeds will praise her at the gates. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

He was like one of those dog breeds that needs to work. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

He's a minister. Seems nice. ~ Jonathan 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

The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse. ~ Jesse Kellerman

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

booth. The other two women face them. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next. ~ Jesse Kellerman

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently. ~ Jesse Kellerman

sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and ~ Jonathan Kellerman

What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing. ~ Max Kellerman

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 ... ~ Jonathan Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV. ~ Sally Kellerman

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

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

People are both more willing and less willing to talk to you when you're a writer. ~ Jesse Kellerman

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown. ~ Sally Kellerman

Sleep. The ultimate resistance ~ 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

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

They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

You have got a good side? I have. I just do not use it too often. My bad side is so much more fun. ~ Faye 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

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

Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of Society, such that their very a- or immorality is what makes their art artistic rather than academic. ~ Jesse Kellerman

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

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

Too many cases thrown out of court, too much pop-psycho crap, satanic bullshit ... if you FEEL you've been abused, you HAVE been! ~ Jonathan Kellerman

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too. ~ Sally 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

Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered. ~ Faye Kellerman

soothing: re-press of an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived, and her husband Alexandre Lagoya, pairing on Debussy's "Clair de Lune. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

Here I come, victims of the world. God help all of us. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

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

bosh," he finally said. "Ook-la. Palm trees ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

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

Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann ~ Jonathan Kellerman

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

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context. ~ Jesse Kellerman

Thinking, as she had a thousand times: Special needs, she's like the others, gets more money for it. Followed by the question that bothered her: What's my special need? Bobby snorted and sputtered and coughed and Ramona rushed over and slapped his back softly until he stopped. Amber started to cry and Ramona said, "One moment, darling." Grace had wondered for a while about what made Bobby weak and have trouble breathing but knew better than to ask Ramona about something that wasn't her business. Instead, she snuck ~ 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

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

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

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

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career. ~ Sally Kellerman

does Ms. Garcia hang ~ 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