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.
Everybody counts or nobody counts - Michael Connelly
Everybody counts or nobody counts
- Michael Connelly
The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he dr… - Michael Connelly
The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he dr…
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 oppo… - Michael Connelly
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 oppo…
There is no client as scary as an innocent man. - Michael Connelly
There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road. - Michael Connelly
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. - Michael Connelly
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there. - Michael Connelly
There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. - Michael Connelly
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. - Michael Connelly
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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