Michael Connelly

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law…

— Michael Connelly

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

— Michael Connelly

“All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made…

— Michael Connelly

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It…

— Michael Connelly

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake.…

— Michael Connelly

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down…

— Michael Connelly

“The bag was a hybrid I had picked up at a store called Suitcase City while I was plotting my comeback. [...]…

— Michael Connelly

I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.

— Michael Connelly

“coming at the interview from a”

— Michael Connelly

When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective,…

— Michael Connelly

“You're an asshole, you know that, Haller?" I nodded and headed back to the door. "When I need to be.”

— Michael Connelly

When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and…

— Michael Connelly

“No matter how much they tried to dress her up with neon and family entertainment she [Las Vegas] was still a whore.”

— Michael Connelly

“Harry, get an ambulance.” I stood up and stepped back from the scene. I felt my chest growing tight, a clarity of…

— Michael Connelly

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the…

— Michael Connelly

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about,…

— Michael Connelly

“we hit the tunnel that marks the end of the freeway and dumps out onto the Pacific Coast Highway. I cracked the…

— Michael Connelly

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

— Michael Connelly

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

— Michael Connelly

“He defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to…

— Michael Connelly

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably…

— Michael Connelly

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

— Michael Connelly

“Sometimes hot sauce was the only way I knew I was still alive.”

— Michael Connelly

“Smith & Wesson 9mm—satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs.”

— Michael Connelly

“Okay, Mick. And for what it’s”

— Michael Connelly