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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. "

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" You have to write about what scares you. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" 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

" I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough. "

Michael Connelly

" My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. "

Michael Connelly

" I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

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

Michael Connelly

" I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth. "

Michael Connelly

" I write my books never thinking of an actor. "

Michael Connelly

" I can't say I'm an expert on public transport. "

Michael Connelly

" I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork. "

Michael Connelly

" We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control. "

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" 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

" I want people to think I'm a creative genius. "

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

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

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly

" 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. "

Michael Connelly