I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors! — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that… — 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
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,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to… — 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
