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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. "

Michael Connelly

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" I can't say I'm an expert on public transport. "

" 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. "

" It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. "

" I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear. "

Michael Connelly

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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. "

" Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place. "

" I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way. "

" My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat. "

" I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin. "

" In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career. "

" My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be a writer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that. "

" The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback. "

" I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to. "

Michael Connelly

Law Enforcement

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" 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. "

" I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.' "