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" A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head. "
Michael Connelly
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" I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be Harry Bosch, who's now going on 20 years of literary life. I still like him the best because there's still a lot to say about him. "
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" I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. "
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" Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out to grab somebody, that's very attractive to me as a reader and, now, as a writer. "
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" I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business. "
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" I want people to think I'm a creative genius. "
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" My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books. "
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" I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both. "
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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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" In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back. "
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" When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one of Chandler's books but was contemporary and set in Los Angeles in 1973. I loved the movie, which motivated me to read the book. "
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" I hate people thinking their city is unique, but there is a certain aura about Los Angeles; it's not necessarily a beautiful thing, but it's part of Harry Bosch. "
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" I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. "
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" The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes. "
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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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