Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly
Michael Connellyis an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 39 languages, have garnered him many awards. Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1956
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.