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Michael Connelly Quotes

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.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Creative Build Way Write Because

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

Jennifer Ehle

Relationship Time School Me Ambition

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

Jeff Bridges

Me You Find Know Want Something

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.

Tony Conrad

People Thinking Out Used Text Range

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

Tony Campolo

Depression Prayer Spiritual Circles

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

Roger Ebert

Love Disappointment Perfect Young

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Rupert Everett

Success Failure Live Yourself World

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

Mary Gaitskill

Me You Said Want Write Fiction

Art is feminine.

Juan Gabriel

Art Feminine

Profit per se is not my motive.

Chris Hughes

Profit Motive Per

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Craig Brown

Never Example Only Who Sensitive

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Alice Walker

People World Think Learn Injustice

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Pietro Aretino

Truth You Want Neighbors Tell Your