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" In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier. "

Michael Connelly

Work

Think

Mind

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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. "

" What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance. "

" I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls. "

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

" I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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City

Head

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn't read a cozy. But I've read cozies. That's how I got interested in crime fiction: because my mother was a soft-boiled reader. "

" What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to want to write like the classic private-eye writers. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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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Two

Intention

" I want people to think I'm a creative genius. "

" Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.' "

" I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books. "

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