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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. "

Michael Connelly

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

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" I get into this unfortunate thing when I'm touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, 'Who's your favorite Spanish mystery writer?' I'm totally flat-footed. I feel that I'm under-read when it comes to foreign writers. "

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

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" This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn't read a cozy. But I've read cozies. That's how I got interested in crime fiction: because my mother was a soft-boiled reader. "

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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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" I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the fuel - it's inspiring - so I try to keep the tank full. What happens most of the time is I binge read. I will put aside a day or two to do nothing but read. "

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" In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier. "

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" When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,' I was braced for, 'That's not gonna happen.' But I didn't get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad's experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside. "

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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 wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. "

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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 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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 write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one. "

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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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" 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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" It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. "

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" Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place. "

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" I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business. "

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" 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. "

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" I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. "

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" Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years. "

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" You have to write about what scares you. "

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" Artists are supposed to stay hungry. "

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

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