35 Quotes by Jesse Kellerman

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.

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.

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

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.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

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.