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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

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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
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Crime Writer
Film Producer
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Michael Joseph Connelly
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A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.
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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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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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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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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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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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The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.
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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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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 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'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'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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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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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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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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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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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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