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" 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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" 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. "

Michael Connelly

Feel

Trying

World

" I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect. "

" All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. "

" 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. "

" I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer. "

" 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. "

" I want people to think I'm a creative genius. "

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

" When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done. "

Michael Connelly

I Am

Story

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

" My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it. "

" 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

" 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. "

" Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. "

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

Michael Connelly

Actor

Fired

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors! "

" 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. "

" My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there's no writer's block allowed in a newsroom. "

" 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 was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days. "

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

" Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "