Michael Connelly quotes

Michael Connelly is an American author, known for his crime novels featuring characters like Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller. His works have received numerous awards and have been adapted into successful films and television series. He is recognized as one of the leading writers in contemporary crime fiction. Here are 45 of his quotes:

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there. (Michael Connelly)

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

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There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

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Everybody counts or nobody counts.

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I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

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You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

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You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

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I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

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I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

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Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. (Michael Connelly)

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 Web sites and blogs.

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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ()

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I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

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I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

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The air they drove through was clear and crisp. They kept the windows up and their expectations down. The call was a suicide run. They.

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It didn't matter what war was fought, coming back home was another battle altogether.

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morning when I left. I checked my car for a GPS tag and yet somehow Creighton's following me up Laurel Canyon Boulevard.” "Maybe it.

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you can't explain crazy. (Michael Connelly)

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

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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 twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

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

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Michael Connelly

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Occupation: American Author
Born: July 21, 1956
Quotes count: 45

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