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I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

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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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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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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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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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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...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
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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 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'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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Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody counts or nobody counts
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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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