Michael Connelly Quotes

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• As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles…
• Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
• There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
• You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if…
• Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
• There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.
• It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
• It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
• There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause…
• A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by…
• The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line…
• Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for…
• I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
• I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.
• I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still…
• I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
• I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
• I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite…
• I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and…
• I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the…

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