Michael Connelly Quotes

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomanManThinkThinkingDownNever

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Joe Clark

TrainingToolsEnoughMediaBad

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

Melissa Etheridge

LifeI AmWriteWhereverHappensAm

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Maya Lin

ThoughtWantArtistsNecessarySome

Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

Steven Pinker

ViolencePartySaidRightMonopoly

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

Steven Spielberg

SchoolHigh SchoolTwoHighHorrible

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

Travis Fimmel

LearningJobPeopleThoughtYouGo

Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That's really what you want to emulate.

Michael Koryta

LookingBookBetterMotivationYou

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

Debbie Ford

ChangeTodaySoulTomorrowWill

Even before 'The OA,' I was a very spiritual person.

Phyllis Smith

SpiritualPersonEvenBeforeVery

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Susanna Kearsley

DayMenWomanFindingLettersHer

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.

Richard Leakey

TimeWorldWealthDiscoveryPlace

When you're tan, you feel better about yourself.

Nicole Polizzi

YourselfBetterFeelYouTanAbout

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