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" When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years. "
Michael Connelly
Different
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Time
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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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" 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. "
Michael Connelly
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World
" 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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Newspaper
Community
" 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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Never
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" 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. "
Michael Connelly
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" 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
Me
" I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it. "
Michael Connelly
People
Book
Control
" I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians. "
Michael Connelly
Musicians
Large
Jazz
" 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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Like
People
Write
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Good Day
School
Good
" We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control. "
Michael Connelly
Order
Control
Seeking
" I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin. "
Michael Connelly
Mysteries
Too
Puzzles
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Beach
News
Story
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Loved
Long
Goodbye
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Me
Two
Intention
" I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters. "
Michael Connelly
Because
Books
Hollywood
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Blood
Work
Story
" My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn't talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me. "
Michael Connelly
School
Experience
High School
" I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one. "
Michael Connelly
Pace
Sometimes
Two
" When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in reading 'The Glass Key' or 'The Maltese Falcon' - stuff that was 40 or 50 years old. "
Michael Connelly
Key
Old
Years
" Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.' "
Michael Connelly
I Think
Childhood
Think
" 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
Character
Me
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
Internet
People
Think
" You have to write about what scares you. "
Michael Connelly
Scares
About
Write
" As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out. "
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Everything
Bank
Weekend
" I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. "
Michael Connelly
Deliberately
Age
Books
" I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances. "
Michael Connelly
Down
Woman
Thinking
" When I write about places in L.A. - like where the best taco truck is or something - it's not about L.A. To me, it's about Harry Bosch, because he's the guy that does these things and has this experience. "
Michael Connelly
Like
Experience
Best
" As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it. "
Michael Connelly
Wherever
Writer
You
" I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. "
Michael Connelly
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