Michael Connelly Quotes
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Michael Connelly Famous Quotes & Sayings
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All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.
might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he
elite squad that went after the tough cases with the relentless skill of a boar rooting in the mud for a truffle.
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.
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.
You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong.
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'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.
He had lived alone most of his life. He was used to places that were empty. He knew the real shelter of a home was inside yourself.
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
It had been Bosch's experience that when you looked back at a life, you used a magnifying glass. Everything was bigger, amplified.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
("The Castle")
("The Castle")
I fully acknowledge that it is easier to knock something down than to build it in the first place. But
I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.
Twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form,
Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully
Edgar was silent as it registered. The background sound of television went quiet and he then spoke in the weak voice of a child asking
The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.
I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
She came to the Cleopatra and her attention was immediately drawn to the side-by-side Tigris and Euphrates Towers. Her
fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top ...
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 14 years.
thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again