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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.
Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
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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'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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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.
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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 going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.
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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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...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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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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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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I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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