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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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...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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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
Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
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
I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
Michael Connelly
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Michael Connelly
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.
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
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Michael Connelly
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
Michael Connelly
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
Michael Connelly
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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 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
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
Michael Connelly
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael Connelly
I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
Michael Connelly
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
Michael Connelly
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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
