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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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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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The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.
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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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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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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'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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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 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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The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.
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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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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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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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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Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
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