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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
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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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 books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
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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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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 never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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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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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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