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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
Actor
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Crime Writer
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Journalist
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
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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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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 feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
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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 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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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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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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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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I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
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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've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
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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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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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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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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 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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