Michael Connelly

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a…

— Michael Connelly

There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always…

— Michael Connelly

Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this…

— Michael Connelly

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about…

— Michael Connelly

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

Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an…

— Michael Connelly

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down…

— Michael Connelly

As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the…

— Michael Connelly

“Someone’s coming.” Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see…

— Michael Connelly

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

I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details…

— Michael Connelly

“Everyone was oblivious to the seething hatred and anger that churned in other parts of the city — beneath the surface like…

— Michael Connelly

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

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

When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one…

— Michael Connelly

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

“The important thing is to believe. Not to hope but to believe. There is a difference. I believe in these things and…

— Michael Connelly

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we…

— Michael Connelly

As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had…

— Michael Connelly

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable…

— Michael Connelly

“In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then…

— Michael Connelly

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably…

— Michael Connelly

I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law…

— Michael Connelly

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into…

— Michael Connelly

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the…

— Michael Connelly

“He defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to…

— Michael Connelly