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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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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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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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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 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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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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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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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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