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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
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
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There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.
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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
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A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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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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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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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
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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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I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
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