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" 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. "

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" 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

" Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant. "

" In general, the human race is still a young organism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am. "

" 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

Time

Job

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice. "

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

" 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. "