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

Michael Connelly

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

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" 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. "

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" I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" L.A. is a long shot city, and those who make that shot - you can tell. You can see very clearly who's made it and who hasn't. "

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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've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.' "

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" 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. "

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" I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin. "

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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. "

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" I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic. "

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

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" The characters I write about are very internal. "

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

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

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" My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there's no writer's block allowed in a newsroom. "

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

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