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

Michael Connelly

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

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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've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business. "

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" Artists are supposed to stay hungry. "

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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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" I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it's big or small. "

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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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" I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. "

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

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

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" I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. "

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" I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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