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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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There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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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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Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.
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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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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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I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
Michael Connelly
