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" The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best. "
Michael Connelly
Best
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" You have to write about what scares you. "
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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 reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. "
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" 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. "
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" The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff. "
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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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" 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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" When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years. "
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" I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. "
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" I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton. "
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" We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. "
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Law
Government
" 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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Writer
Three
" I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer. "
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Book
Hollywood
" All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. "
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Down
Fun
" My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland. "
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Ireland
Parents
" 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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Style
Past
" I write my books never thinking of an actor. "
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Books
Never
Thinking
" Artists are supposed to stay hungry. "
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Artists
Hungry
Supposed
" There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always felt that the books I have written fastest have been my best - because I caught an unstoppable momentum in the writing. "
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School
Writing
Time
" I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough. "
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Never
Miss
Enough
" 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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Will
Think
Never
" 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. "
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Weak
True
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" I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now. "
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" When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old - when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He's also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book. "
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Book
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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. "
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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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Situation
Connection
" 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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Back
Wait
" 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. "
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Long
Goodbye
" 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. "
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Matter
Think
Philosophy
" That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. "
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Irony
Work
Worst