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I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
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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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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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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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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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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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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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
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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 no client as scary as an innocent man.
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I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
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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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Everybody counts or nobody counts
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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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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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...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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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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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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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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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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