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" That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors! "

Michael Connelly

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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 realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat. "

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" My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off. "

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" I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be Harry Bosch, who's now going on 20 years of literary life. I still like him the best because there's still a lot to say about him. "

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" You have to write about what scares you. "

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

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

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" My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland. "

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" One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms. "

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" 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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" I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. "

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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 reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. "

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