Around Quote by Michael Connelly

My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

— Michael Connelly

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

— Michael Connelly

I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be…

— Michael Connelly

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

— Michael Palin

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being…

— Charles Horton Cooley

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

— Bernhard Schlink

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

— Stewart O'Nan