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
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — 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
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
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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