I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. — 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 really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real” — 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
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and… — 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 there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in… — 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
Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past… — 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
“Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-nine previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers The Wrong Side of Goodbye and The… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off. — 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
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one. — 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
...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of… — 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
I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh,… — 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
No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as… — 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
When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic. — 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
