Quotes by Jonathan Kellerman - Page 1

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
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The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Mad
School
Stress
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Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Glasses
Life Is Like
Prisms
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Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Running
Helping
Needs
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Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.
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Mean
Silence
Suffering
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Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Government
Humorous
Sarcastic
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The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Art
Art Is
Knowing
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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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Keys
Locks
Strong
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Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Denial
Life Experience
Optimism
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The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Jobs
Character
Enjoyable
Mind
Twisted
Emerge
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I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Human Nature
Novelists
Psychologist
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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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Should Have
Training
Violence
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Kind
Novelists
Who I Am
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The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Collaboration
Deliberation
Creatively
Stretch
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Consideration
Leaving
Pompous
Standards
Adhere
Aside
Considerations
Readers
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These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Emergence
Old Friends
Hope Me People
Meeting
Readers
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Jobs
Challenges
Hard Work
Harder
Work Myself World
However
Predecessor
Repeating
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Book
Good Way
Tired
Workout
Time Good Great
Afterwards
Charged
However
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That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Imaginary
Isaac
Paid
Space Time Great
Grade
Grade School
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Book
Research
Writing
Years
Begin
Emerge
Inevitably
Require
Varies
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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 have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
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Principal
Good Money Me
Writers
Remain
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We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.
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Chunks
Destructive
Ruthless
Suggestions
In Fact
Suppose
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Data
Keys
Practice
Touch
Bank
Journals
Officially
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Beautiful
Book
Writing
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Children
Feel Better
Strong
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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.
Jonathan Kellerman / Psychologist
Kids
Queens
Years
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