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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.

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'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 never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
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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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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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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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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'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 think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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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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