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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. "

Michael Connelly

Think

Journalism

Drive

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Reputation

" My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it. "

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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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" 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. "

" Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place. "

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

" I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the fuel - it's inspiring - so I try to keep the tank full. What happens most of the time is I binge read. I will put aside a day or two to do nothing but read. "

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

Michael Connelly

Actor

Fired

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

" Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. "

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

Two

Intention

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

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

" I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Michael Connelly

Wonder

Build

" 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. "

" The characters I write about are very internal. "

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

" You know that song, 'New York, New York?' If I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere? That's kind of like L.A. "

" The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will help people read my books. "