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

Michael Connelly

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" There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention. "

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" My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear. "

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" 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. "

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

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