All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context. Jesse Kellerman More Quotes by Jesse Kellerman More Quotes From Jesse Kellerman 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 parents me legacy impossible 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. Jesse Kellerman great me sky people 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. Jesse Kellerman moment situation mystery people 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? Jesse Kellerman think me introduction trying Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant. Jesse Kellerman without comedy tragedy purpose We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice. Jesse Kellerman great injustice crime justice In general, the human race is still a young organism. Jesse Kellerman general human race young 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. Jesse Kellerman self time science people
