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" I get into this unfortunate thing when I'm touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, 'Who's your favorite Spanish mystery writer?' I'm totally flat-footed. I feel that I'm under-read when it comes to foreign writers. "

Michael Connelly

Spain

Books

Media

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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. "

Michael Connelly

Creative

Reputation

" 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. "

" Artists are supposed to stay hungry. "

" I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. "

" I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading. "

Michael Connelly

Wonder

Build

" I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. "

Michael Connelly

Love

Writer

" What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to want to write like the classic private-eye writers. "

" 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. "

" A good day to me is writing from 6 A.M. 'til noon with a break to take my daughter to school. After lunch, if I still feel the momentum, I'll hit it again. "

" A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs. "

" 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. "

" My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off. "

" 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. "

" As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. "

" I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling. "

" Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.' "

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

" In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium. "

Michael Connelly

Going

Seeing

" I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep. "

" When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old - when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He's also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book. "

Michael Connelly

Book

Character

" The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff. "

" I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To get a connection to your characters, you have to put them in a situation that you can feel yourself. "

" I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true. "

" 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

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

" 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. "