Quote

Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

Michael Connelly

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
Author
Chronicler
Crime Writer
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Michael Joseph Connelly
Good
Road
Conscience
Lead
Growing
Doesn
Anything

More quotes by Michael Connelly

Image
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.
Michael Connelly
Image
How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.
Michael Connelly
Image
Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.
Michael Connelly
Image
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
Image
...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
Michael Connelly
Image
Everybody counts or nobody counts
Michael Connelly
Image
There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
Michael Connelly
Image
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
Michael Connelly
Image
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.
Michael Connelly
Image
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
Michael Connelly
Image
Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.
Michael Connelly
Image
I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
Michael Connelly
Image
A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
Michael Connelly
Image
Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
Michael Connelly
Image
I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
Michael Connelly
Image
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.
Michael Connelly
Image
I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
Michael Connelly
Image
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
Michael Connelly
Image
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Michael Connelly
Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
Michael Connelly