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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Michael Joseph Connelly
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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
Michael Connelly
Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
...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.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
Michael Connelly
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.
Michael Connelly
Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!
Michael Connelly
Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
Michael Connelly
I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
Michael Connelly
I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
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
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
Michael Connelly
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
Michael Connelly
