A biography for Jesse Kellermanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.”
“It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read.”
“It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.”
“All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.”
“I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In general, the human race is still a young organism.”
“Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”