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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
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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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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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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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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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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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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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've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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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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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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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...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 think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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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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Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.
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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 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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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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