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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Michael Joseph Connelly
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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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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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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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I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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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've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
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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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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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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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