Michael Connelly Quotes

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleReadingCrimeWriteLikeSue

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

Sumner Redstone

MarriageBetterDivorceSometimes

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Steven Pinker

MemoryMeResearchLanguageDoing

I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative.

Tracey Emin

CreativePeopleInspireThinkYoung

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

Tommy Chong

SchoolHigh SchoolKnowStreetJail

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Mason Cooley

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I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

Joshua Cohen

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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Desmond Tutu

FreedomPeaceSupportPeopleWorld

Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process.

Debra Granik

PathProcessLongLookDownKind

I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.

Corbin Bleu

EyesI CanMoveDifferentDirections

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

Bob Latta

GreatConstitutionDownNationSit

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

Peter O'Toole

WomenBeautifulAmazingMysteryKnow

If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.

Sherrod Brown

LeadershipRoadsBridgesPlanExpect

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