Book Quote by Michael Connelly

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that…

— Ann Patchett

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that…

— Bob Schieffer

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police…

— Michael Connelly

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article…

— Amy Waldman

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is…

— James Ellroy

I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things…

— Kristian Nairn

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side,…

— Richard Price

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important…

— Sam Jaeger

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

Early in my career I was much more confident in the almost omniscient powers of a reporter, because you could find anything out and…

— David Grann