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" In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story. "

Michael Connelly

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" As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out. "

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" 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. "

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" I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book. "

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" The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The characters I write about are very internal. "

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" My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn't talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me. "

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" We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. "

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" 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. "

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" I can't say I'm an expert on public transport. "

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" 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. "

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" I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. "

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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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" A good day to me is writing from 6 A.M. 'til noon with a break to take my daughter to school. After lunch, if I still feel the momentum, I'll hit it again. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control. "

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" When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But that's a huge consideration in film and TV. "

Michael Connelly

" Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out to grab somebody, that's very attractive to me as a reader and, now, as a writer. "

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

" 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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" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

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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 fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day. "

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" I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton. "

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