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I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Michael Connelly

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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
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Chronicler
Crime Writer
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Journalist
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Television Producer
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Michael Joseph Connelly
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I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
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I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
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That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
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I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.
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In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.
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I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
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