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Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
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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I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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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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Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
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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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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
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