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I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

~Michael Connelly

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My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn't talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me.

~Michael Connelly

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I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now.

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A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

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I write my books never thinking of an actor.

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When I write about places in L.A. - like where the best taco truck is or something - it's not about L.A. To me, it's about Harry Bosch, because he's the guy that does these things and has this experience.

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The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

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There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention.

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I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.

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I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 21st, 1956

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