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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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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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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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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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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
Michael Connelly
How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.
Michael Connelly
I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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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!
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
Michael Connelly
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
Michael Connelly
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
Michael Connelly
Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
Michael Connelly
