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" 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. "

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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. "

Michael Connelly

Writing

Important

Hand

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

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

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

" 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

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

" People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic. "

" I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published. "

" The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will help people read my books. "

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

" 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. "

" Artists are supposed to stay hungry. "

" I write my books never thinking of an actor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off. "

" As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the way I do with Harry Bosch. "

" In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don't. "

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

" Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. "

Michael Connelly

Eight

Car

" 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. "

" I'm just going to write the best books I can. "

" The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years. "

" 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. "