The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head. — 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
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
I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people. — 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
I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to… — 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 think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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 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
