Jonathan Kellerman Quotes
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Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.
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The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
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All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.
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I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians.
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Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.
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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.
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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 medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
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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 the readers expect.
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Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
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I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.
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Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
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The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
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His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)
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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.
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To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)
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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 job in the world.
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The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.
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