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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
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Chronicler
Crime Writer
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Michael Joseph Connelly
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Twenties
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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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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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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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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'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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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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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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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 think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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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.
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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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...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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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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