Top 33 Quotes by Jesse Kellerman

When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

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

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