Everybody counts or nobody counts

- 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…

- 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

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

- Michael Connelly

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

- 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.

- Michael Connelly

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

- Michael Connelly

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

- Michael Connelly

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

- Michael Connelly