The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
It's about being fair. It's about Black Lives Matter. Yes, they matter. Everybody counts or nobody counts, and I think if more cops had… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“Someone’s coming.” Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“There is no end of things in the heart. Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“Are you okay?” he asked. “I’m fine, yeah,” she said. She wiped tears off her cheeks. “Somebody who totally fucked me over died today,”… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“At the bottom of the hill, after Boston College, the route passes St. Ignatius Church on the right. It was here that textile worker… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“He said no. He said, in very fine English, ‘I buy, I don’t sell.’ Then he escorted me out. But I think that was… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“The paying jobs were few and she was often taken advantage of by the leeches who were part of the entertainment industry. But she… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It’s… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there?… — Michael Connelly Copy Share
