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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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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.
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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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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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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.
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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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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've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
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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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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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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'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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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
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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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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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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