Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

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• Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
• Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.
• The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.
• 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…
• The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
• I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.
• Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
• His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)
• To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)
• The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
• Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.
• All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.
• Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
• The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).
• 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…

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