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Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Black
Guts
Writing
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Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Requires
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In general, the human race is still a young organism.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Human Race
Organism
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...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Form
Marketing
Seduction
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Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Attention Span
Nintendo
Member
Short Attention Span
Span
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Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Comedy
Higher
Melodrama
Purpose
Tragedy
Vacant
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Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Just Kind
Just Something
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When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Time Home First Time
Celebrated
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We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Correcting
Injustice
Novelists
Pulpit
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It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Timing
Identify
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It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.
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Decided
Capitalize
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All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
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Good And Evil
Context
Intent
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All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
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Mimicking
Patterns
Speech
All Writers
Good Start Never
Ear
Relinquished
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Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Employment
Graduate School
Respectable
Tutor
Adult Life
Aside
Brief
Graduate
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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.
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Satisfied
Life My Life Rest
Intend
Mode
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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.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Novel
Office
Degree
Earned
Graduate
Graduate Degree
Looked
Sold
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I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship.
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Trepidation
Family Work Relationship
Affect
Family Member
Member
Personal Relationship
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Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
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Fool
Former
Instant
Catch
Deleted
Errand
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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.
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Suspense
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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.
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Publication
Agent
Editor
Opinions
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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.
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Constant
Household
Workshops
Assumes
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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.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Growing Up
Impossible
Legacy
Genetic
How Much
Parents
Product
Urge
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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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Bizarre
Danger
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Situation
Prefer
Confront
Forced
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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.
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Being Different
Differentiate
Sake
Myself Always Struggle
Purposely
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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.
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Banging
Cold
Garage
Ibm
Mark
Literally
Violently
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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.
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Common Sense
Fickle
Revision
Chasm
Exists
Real Time
Two People
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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?
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Bother
Introduction
Metaphor
Ought
Sentences
Why Bother
Blondes
Employ
Gritty
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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.
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Discipline
Time Discipline Me
Time Me Fun
Important Lesson
Lesson
Requires
Test
Wonderful Job
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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.
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Good Way
Work Time Art
Galleries
Hang
Openings
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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.
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Possibility
Sky
Great Me Parents
Naturally
Teachers
Arrow
Great Sky Me
Envision
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People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.
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Accord
Time Believe People
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Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.
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Icons
Roaring
Thought Provoking
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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.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Written Word
Element
Voices
Yours
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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.
Jesse Kellerman / Novelist
Investigation
Resolution
Sentences
Efficiently
Expects
Good Deal
Logically
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