Michael Connelly Quotes

I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or known that connects the reader to this person you're going to ride through the story with.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 21, 1956

Topics

RideStoryThinkYouPersonSaid

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

Joe Morton

ScienceThinkYouKnowMeanNeed

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Joan Jett

MusicActingDoneThingsDifferent

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

Melvyn Bragg

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Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

Andre Aciman

LovedGeniusMeant To BeOutThrough

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Robert Scoble

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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

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The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

Ang Lee

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Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

Stephen Hawking

TimeSpaceThoughtUniversePlace

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

Stefan Zweig

PeaceWarSpeakProcessForceRule

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

Simon Armitage

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My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Michael Phelps

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It's funny: I've always wanted to grow my hair out ,and I always seem to get a movie right before it's sort of the right length or right after, and it's never timed right.

Lucas Till

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