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" 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. "

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" I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days. "

Michael Connelly

Books

Think

Police

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

Michael Connelly

Love

Writer

" I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch. "

Michael Connelly

Few

Inner

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

" A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs. "

" With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview. "

" The characters I write about are very internal. "

" I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling. "

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

City

Head

" I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list. "

" 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. "

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

" I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. "

" I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to. "

Michael Connelly

Law Enforcement

Job

" 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. "

" I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. "

Michael Connelly

Writing

Think

" When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done. "

Michael Connelly

I Am

Story

" 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. "

" In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back. "

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

Michael Connelly

Eight

Car

" I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to tell stories. "

" 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. "

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