Books Quotes by Michael Connelly

I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

— Michael Connelly

The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.

— Michael Connelly

I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books.

— Michael Connelly

I'm just going to write the best books I can.

— Michael Connelly

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

— Michael Connelly

I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.

— Michael Connelly

I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer.

— Michael Connelly

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

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )”

— Michael Connelly

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts…

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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

I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

— Michael Connelly

I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.

— Michael Connelly

“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

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and…

— Michael Connelly

I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading…

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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

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

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and…

— Michael Connelly

Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past…

— Michael Connelly

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not…

— Michael Connelly

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in…

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“Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-nine previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers The Wrong Side of Goodbye and The…

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My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

— Michael Connelly

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

— Michael Connelly

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

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on…

— Michael Connelly

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

— Michael Connelly

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

— Michael Connelly

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

— 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

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

— 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

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

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...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of…

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I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh,…

— Michael Connelly

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

— Michael Connelly

Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help…

— Michael Connelly