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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
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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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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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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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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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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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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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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!
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
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