Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the… — 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
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
One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms. — 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
“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
It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. — 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. — 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
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block. — 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
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
