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" 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
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" I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians. "
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" People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic. "
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" With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview. "
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" 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. "
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" This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn't read a cozy. But I've read cozies. That's how I got interested in crime fiction: because my mother was a soft-boiled reader. "
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" Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. "
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" As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out. "
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" Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.' "
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" My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off. "
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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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" I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published. "
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" Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books. "
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Myself
People
" 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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Art
Anything
" 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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Drive
" I write my books never thinking of an actor. "
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Never
Thinking
" 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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" 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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" 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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Him
Back
Wait
" I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. "
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Internet
People
Think
" I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. "
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Free
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" I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances. "
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Down
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Thinking
" When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But that's a huge consideration in film and TV. "
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Film
Cost
Never
" I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now. "
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" As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. "
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" I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep. "
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Before
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" All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. "
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" I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling. "
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" I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or known that connects the reader to this person you're going to ride through the story with. "
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Because
Books
Hollywood