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It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

~Michael Connelly

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As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in reading 'The Glass Key' or 'The Maltese Falcon' - stuff that was 40 or 50 years old.

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I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.'

~Michael Connelly

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In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.

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I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.

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Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out to grab somebody, that's very attractive to me as a reader and, now, as a writer.

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I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.

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You know that song, 'New York, New York?' If I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere? That's kind of like L.A.

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Every time I visit Brisbane, I think, 'This is my childhood.'

~Michael Connelly

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 21st, 1956

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