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Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
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Crime Writer
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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Everybody
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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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As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
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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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The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.
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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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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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I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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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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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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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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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
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Michael Connelly
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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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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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
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
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
