Michael Connelly Quotes

• There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

  Michael Connelly

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• Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

  Michael Connelly

• What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

  Michael Connelly

• We’re all seeking order. We’re all seeking control.

  Michael Connelly

• 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.

  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

• The characters I write about are very internal.

  Michael Connelly

• That’s the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else’s worst.

  Michael Connelly

• Now I’m writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

  Michael Connelly

• 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.

  Michael Connelly

• 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

• 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’m always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

  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

• 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

• I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about – police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

  Michael Connelly

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

  Michael Connelly

• 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

• I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

  Michael Connelly

• I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven’t seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

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Michael Connelly (29)

Birth:	21st July, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

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• 1951 - Al Franken
• 1957 - Judge Reinhold
• 1958 - Tom Feeney
• 1944 - Mary Therese Winifred Robinson

Deaths

• 1926 - Ronald Firbank
• 1944 - Rene Daumal
• 1983 - Kenneth Clark
• 1995 - Les Aspin
• 1999 - Vanessa Brown