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I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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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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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...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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I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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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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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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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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That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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