Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters. "

Michael Connelly

Because

Books

Hollywood

" I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to. "

Michael Connelly

Law Enforcement

Job

" 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 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. "

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

" A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head. "

Michael Connelly

City

Head

" I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch. "

Michael Connelly

Few

Inner

" I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. "

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

Michael Connelly

Eight

Car

" 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

" My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be a writer. "

" I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the day before, and that gives some momentum for the day. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms. "

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

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

Michael Connelly

Wonder

Build

" 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