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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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Crime Writer
Film Producer
Journalist
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
Failures
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Jealousy
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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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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 realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
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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'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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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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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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I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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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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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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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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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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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