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" 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
Relationship
Someone
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" Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us. "
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People
" 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
Doing
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Parents
" 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. "
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Parents
People
" All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns. "
Jesse Kellerman
Speech
Good
Never
" 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
Work
Play
Performance
" All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context. "
Jesse Kellerman
Evil
Books
Action
" The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end. "
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End
Suspense
Mystery
" Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant. "
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Without
Tragedy
Comedy
" 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
Sit
Success
Mystery
" 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. "
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Live
Work
Time
" 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
Everyone
Writing
Parents
" People are both more willing and less willing to talk to you when you're a writer. "
Jesse Kellerman
Willing
People
Talk
" 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
Parents
Impossible
Growing Up
" Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span. "
Jesse Kellerman
Attention
Being
Got
" In general, the human race is still a young organism. "
Jesse Kellerman
Young
Still
Race
" 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
Introduction
Why
Trying
" 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
Life
Writing
Rest
" 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
Me
Time
Job
" We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice. "
Jesse Kellerman
Write
Justice
Crime
" 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
Sky
Career
Great
" 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
Beginning
Expectations
Good
" I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre. "
Jesse Kellerman
Experience
Some
Theatre
" 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
Moment
Say
People
" Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am. "
Jesse Kellerman
Writing
Just
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