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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
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Chronicler
Crime Writer
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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Television Producer
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Michael Joseph Connelly
Jealousy
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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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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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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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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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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'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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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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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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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'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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