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" I've crossed the Mexican border and gone to Tijuana a few times over the years, but I've never felt comfortable there. "
Michael Connelly
Mexican
Never
Comfortable
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" The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off. "
Michael Connelly
Lawyers
Society
Believe
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
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Hate
" 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
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Mind
" My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be a writer. "
Michael Connelly
Heroes
Writer
Three
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Matter
Think
Philosophy
" I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect. "
Michael Connelly
Got
Essence
Lawyer
" My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off. "
Michael Connelly
Writing
Important
Hand
" Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations. "
Michael Connelly
Writing
People
Book
" I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling. "
Michael Connelly
Want
People
Reflect
" When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one of Chandler's books but was contemporary and set in Los Angeles in 1973. I loved the movie, which motivated me to read the book. "
Michael Connelly
Loved
Long
Goodbye
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Look
Line
You
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Spain
Books
Media
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
You
Know
Song
" I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. "
Michael Connelly
Write
Wanted
About
" Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.' "
Michael Connelly
I Think
Childhood
Think
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Weak
True
Think
" Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. "
Michael Connelly
Every Day
Paragraph
Write
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
You
Story
Person
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Beach
Time
Never
" The characters I write about are very internal. "
Michael Connelly
Characters
Write
Very
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Inspired
Want
Table
" The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best. "
Michael Connelly
Best
Were
Sold
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Small
Time
You
" I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth. "
Michael Connelly
Think
Plant
Character
" I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians. "
Michael Connelly
Musicians
Large
Jazz
" I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. "
Michael Connelly
She
Free
Past
" I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading. "
Michael Connelly
Me
Wonder
Build
" Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that. "
Michael Connelly
Work Ethic
Craft
Many
" I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. "
Michael Connelly
Deliberately
Age
Books
" The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff. "
Michael Connelly
Story
Act
Build