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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.
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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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'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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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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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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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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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 went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
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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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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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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!
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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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As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
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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 a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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