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" I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. "
Michael Connelly
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Crime
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" L.A. is a long shot city, and those who make that shot - you can tell. You can see very clearly who's made it and who hasn't. "
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" 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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" 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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" We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control. "
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" 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. "
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" As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,' I was braced for, 'That's not gonna happen.' But I didn't get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad's experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside. "
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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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