American - Author | July 21, 1956 -
In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.
Michael Connelly
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I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.
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Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out to grab somebody, that's very attractive to me as a reader and, now, as a writer.
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The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.
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I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.
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The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.
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You know that song, 'New York, New York?' If I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere? That's kind of like L.A.
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Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'
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As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.
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When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,' I was braced for, 'That's not gonna happen.' But I didn't get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad's experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside.
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When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it's big or small.
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My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.
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