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
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
“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
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 trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading. — 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
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
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
The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and… — 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
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
I get into this unfortunate thing when I'm touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, 'Who's… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — 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
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
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
...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
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
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them. — 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
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
There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.” quote by Michael Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2cc/michael-connelly-1004_books_the-built-in-form-is-a-window-frame-you_161714.jpg)
