Top 100 Michael Connelly Quotes
#1. I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.
Henry Rollins
#2. Michael Connelly's Series Order Diana Gabaldon's Series Order Patricia Cornwell's Series Order Fern Michael's Series Order Robert Ludlum's Series Order Harlan Coben's Series Order Terry Pratchett's Series Order J.A. Jance's Series Order Tom Clancy's
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#3. Don't hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you're writing, - Michael Connelly
Sue Ward Drake
#4. I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
Jo Nesbo
#5. Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.
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#7. time. He also discovered that the burglar was still inside. It was this discovery that ultimately brought Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, to the Three Kings Pawnshop.
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#9. As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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#10. Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.
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#11. Guilt," he said. "You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they'll take you under and you'll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.
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#14. Was. "Uh, hi, Walter. This is my daughter, Hayley, and this is her mom, Maggie McPherson." "Hi," Hayley said shyly. Maggie nodded and looked uncomfortable. Walter made the mistake of thrusting his hand out to Maggie. If she could have
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#15. Lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was
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#16. Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and
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#17. The good ones all had that hollow space inside. The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. Call it justice. Call it the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness forever.
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#18. Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.
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#19. If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die.
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#20. She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top ...
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#22. One of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else.
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#23. Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
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#24. I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.
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#25. I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
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#26. The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.
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#28. We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.
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#29. You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
("The Castle")
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#30. Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in a hurry. The dusk was smoother, the moon more graceful. Maybe it was because the moon was more patient. In life and nature, Bosch thought, darkness always waits.
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#31. Parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid.
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#32. It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.
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#34. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyer's Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro.
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#36. I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.
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#37. When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.
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#39. I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again
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#40. Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.
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#41. What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
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#42. Closers. So let's close this one out. Bosch and Rider stood
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#43. All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.
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#45. When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.
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#46. I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
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#47. I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.
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#48. Executive assistant. "Mrs. Albrecht, how are you today?" "Very well. I just got here and thought maybe I had missed you." "Nope. I just got here too." "Come in, please." The house had a two-story entry area
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#53. No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.
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#55. There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
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#56. Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.
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#57. Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.
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#58. But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer ...
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#59. Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.
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#60. That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
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#62. He had lived alone most of his life. He was used to places that were empty. He knew the real shelter of a home was inside yourself.
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#64. I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.
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#65. I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it.
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#66. You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong.
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#67. There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys
prosecution and defense
dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at.
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#71. The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
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#72. Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.
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#73. Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.
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#74. That's justice," she said, nodding at the statue. "She doesn't hear you. She doesn't see you. She can't feel you and won't speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde.
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#75. I fully acknowledge that it is easier to knock something down than to build it in the first place. But
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#76. Edgar was silent as it registered. The background sound of television went quiet and he then spoke in the weak voice of a child asking
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#77. Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?
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#78. When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
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#79. You're a sleazy defense lawyer with two ex-wifes and an eight-year-old daughter and we all love you.
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#80. Working homicide for so many years, Bosch could not be surprised anymore by the horrors people inflicted on each other. But the horrors people saved for themselves were a different story.
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#81. Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon.
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#82. fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
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#83. Play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you
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#84. Writing does for me what you got in that glass does for you. If I can write about it, I can understand it. And I can put it in the ground. That's all I want to do.
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#85. thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold
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#87. I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look at this thing."
"Harry, you sure you
"
"You think I have a choice?
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#88. The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.
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#89. I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
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#91. You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.
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#92. need a driver for the next few days, maybe more. You want to do it, the job's yours. I'm paying ten bucks an hour plus any meals. You'd have to bring a book or something because there will be a lot of sitting around waiting for me.
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#94. It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
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#95. You know what they call a guy who switches sides in homicide? They call him a Jane Fonda, as in hanging with the North Vietnamese. You get it? It's crossing to the dark side.
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#97. He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company
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#98. talking about. I am trying to prepare a defense strategy here
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#99. And what's with all the names on the new list? I've got kids I'd like to spend time with tonight."
"Give it to Lankford. He has the time. I think he ate his kids.
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