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" I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton. "

Michael Connelly

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" In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier. "

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

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" 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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" I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. "

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" 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

" I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth. "

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" I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. "

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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. "

Michael Connelly

" I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. "

Michael Connelly

" Artists are supposed to stay hungry. "

Michael Connelly

" 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

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

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

" I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it. "

Michael Connelly

" The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best. "

Michael Connelly

" With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview. "

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

" I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.' "

Michael Connelly

" In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story. "

Michael Connelly

" You have to write about what scares you. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" 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

" Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out to grab somebody, that's very attractive to me as a reader and, now, as a writer. "

Michael Connelly

" I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to tell stories. "

Michael Connelly

" I've crossed the Mexican border and gone to Tijuana a few times over the years, but I've never felt comfortable there. "

Michael Connelly