American - Author | July 21, 1956 -
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.
Michael Connelly
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My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.
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I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way.
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When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one of Chandler's books but was contemporary and set in Los Angeles in 1973. I loved the movie, which motivated me to read the book.
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I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.
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I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.
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I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now.
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A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.
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I write my books never thinking of an actor.
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When I write about places in L.A. - like where the best taco truck is or something - it's not about L.A. To me, it's about Harry Bosch, because he's the guy that does these things and has this experience.
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The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.
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There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention.
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