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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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Film Producer
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.
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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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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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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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Everybody counts or nobody counts
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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.
Michael Connelly
I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
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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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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'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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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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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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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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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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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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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That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael Connelly
Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
Michael Connelly
I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
Michael Connelly
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
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