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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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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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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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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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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
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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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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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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 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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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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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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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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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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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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