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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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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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I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
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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'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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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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I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.
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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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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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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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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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Everybody counts or nobody counts
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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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I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
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I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
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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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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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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.
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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.
Michael Connelly
