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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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Crime Writer
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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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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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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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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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 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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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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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.
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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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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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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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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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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 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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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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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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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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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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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.
Michael Connelly
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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