Michael Connelly Quotes

I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoliceThinkDetailsWriteDaysGot

As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.

Jenna McCarthy

TimeProgressYouRelationshipsWay

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

Melanie Mayron

MeLuckEnoughPlayWantActor

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

John Lasseter

CharacterHeartBeginningThinkGrow

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Michael J. Saylor

IntelligenceProfessionalPrincipal

You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.

Steven Berkoff

MoneyManPerformanceYouMovies

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

ChooseBornWayBecomeJustWriter

Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.

Michael Keaton

FunnyMeCrazySeemsDecentDude

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Mitch Daniels

GovernmentBehaviorFederal Government

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

GreatThinkBuiltI ThinkRejections

A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.

Corey Stoll

PlayTweetDeliveredDefinitely

Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.

Claire Tomalin

LifeHisAboutOrphansPassionately

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

WisdomMeWorldEnoughLongPlace

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