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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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Crime Writer
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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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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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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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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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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I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
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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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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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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'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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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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