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 Copy Share Image
When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective,… — 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
“And what's with all the names on the new list? I've got kids I'd like to spend time with tonight." "Give it… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn't read a cozy.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Harry, get an ambulance.” I stood up and stepped back from the scene. I felt my chest growing tight, a clarity of… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading… — 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
There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always… — 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
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
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
