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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
Film Producer
Journalist
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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Nobody
Everybody
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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 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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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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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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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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Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
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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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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.
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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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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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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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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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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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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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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
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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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.
Michael Connelly
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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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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