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" All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. "
Michael Connelly
Walk
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" I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the day before, and that gives some momentum for the day. "
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" We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. "
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" When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years. "
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" I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians. "
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" My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn't talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me. "
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" Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that. "
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" Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. "
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" My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there's no writer's block allowed in a newsroom. "
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