Michael Connelly Quotes

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• If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

  Michael Connelly

  Abuse, Next, Guilty

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• 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

  Book, Character, Thinking

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• What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

  Michael Connelly

  Important, Said

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• There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

  Michael Connelly

  Moving On, Heartbreak, Letting Go

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”

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• You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Twenties, Three

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• It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

  Michael Connelly

  World, Paradise, Way

  Michael Connelly (2003). “Lost Light”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

  Michael Connelly

  Heart, Men, Light

  Michael Connelly (2009). “The Scarecrow”, p.100, Hachette UK

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

  Michael Connelly

  Men, Innocent Man, Scary

  Michael Connelly (2011). “The Lincoln Lawyer Novels: The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal”, Little, Brown

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• The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

  Michael Connelly

  Beautiful, Sunset, Home

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

  Michael Connelly

  Crime Novels, Detective Work, Detectives

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• What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

  Michael Connelly

  Reflection

  Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.842, Hachette UK

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• Everybody counts or nobody counts

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  Michael Connelly (2009). “The Last Coyote”, p.10, Allen & Unwin

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• You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

  Michael Connelly

  Soul, Band, Ptsd

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.69, Hachette UK

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

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Paragraph, Ifs

  "Michael Connelly’s Biography/ FAQs". www.michaelconnelly.com.

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• I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

  Michael Connelly

  Years, Different, Sometimes

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”

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• 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

  Art, Quality, Redemption

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• You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

  Michael Connelly

  Falling In Love, Names, Making Love

  Michael Connelly (2009). “Lost Light”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

  Michael Connelly

  Character, Plot, Fancy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Dream, Anchors

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Long, Wicked

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• How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Paris, Stories

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• ...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

  Michael Connelly

  Character, Desire, Glimpse

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• The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.

  Michael Connelly

  Giving, Fiction, Use

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• It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

  Michael Connelly

  Self, Secret, Lucky

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• 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

  Inspire, Darkness, Looks

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