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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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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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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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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 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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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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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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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
Michael Connelly
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 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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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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I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
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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 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
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.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
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.
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
As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
Michael Connelly
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.
Michael Connelly
