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" As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it. "
Michael Connelly
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" My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear. "
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" It's about being fair. It's about Black Lives Matter. Yes, they matter. Everybody counts or nobody counts, and I think if more cops had the philosophy of Harry Bosch, we'd have less of these situations happening. "
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" I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch. "
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" I want people to think I'm a creative genius. "
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" I've crossed the Mexican border and gone to Tijuana a few times over the years, but I've never felt comfortable there. "
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Mexican
Never
Comfortable
" There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always felt that the books I have written fastest have been my best - because I caught an unstoppable momentum in the writing. "
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" I'm just going to write the best books I can. "
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" I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians. "
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Musicians
Large
Jazz
" I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list. "
Michael Connelly
High
Top
Life
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Back
Research
Process
" I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork. "
Michael Connelly
Know
Irish
Ancestors
" I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading. "
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Me
Wonder
Build
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
School
Experience
High School
" You know that song, 'New York, New York?' If I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere? That's kind of like L.A. "
Michael Connelly
You
Know
Song
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Character
World
History
" When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it's big or small. "
Michael Connelly
Small
Time
You
" People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic. "
Michael Connelly
People
Books
Fantastic
" I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect. "
Michael Connelly
Got
Essence
Lawyer
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Now
Back
Best
" 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
City
Head
Like
" 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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Power
Law
Government
" The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day. "
Michael Connelly
Good Day
Writing
Me
" 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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Far
Florida
Three
" Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. "
Michael Connelly
Eight
Car
Me
" I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. "
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Quality
Art
Anything
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Loved
Long
Goodbye
" I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls. "
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Darkness
Good
Go
" I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one. "
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Pace
Sometimes
Two
" I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep. "
Michael Connelly
Read
Before
Mostly
" I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the fuel - it's inspiring - so I try to keep the tank full. What happens most of the time is I binge read. I will put aside a day or two to do nothing but read. "
Michael Connelly
Nothing
Try
Time