"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind.……" — Jonathan Kellerman
"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."
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23 Quotes by Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a…
- Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I…
- Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even…
- At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes…
- 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)