American - Author | July 21, 1956 -
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.
Michael Connelly
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The characters I write about are very internal.
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I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.
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I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.
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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.
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I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.
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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.
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I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
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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'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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One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.
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Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.
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