It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. — 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
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score. — 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
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
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
In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — 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
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
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake.… — 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
“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
“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
I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
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