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" I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. "

Michael Connelly

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

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" When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in reading 'The Glass Key' or 'The Maltese Falcon' - stuff that was 40 or 50 years old. "

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" I get into this unfortunate thing when I'm touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, 'Who's your favorite Spanish mystery writer?' I'm totally flat-footed. I feel that I'm under-read when it comes to foreign writers. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention. "

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" I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. "

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

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