That's my job, to forge the blade. To sharpen it. To use it without mercy or conscience. To be the truth in a place where everybody lies. Michael Connelly More Quotes by Michael Connelly More Quotes From Michael Connelly If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents? Michael Connelly abuseguiltynext You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. Michael Connelly ptsdbandsoul It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road. Michael Connelly paradisewayworld 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 drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story. Michael Connelly sunsethomebeautiful 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. Michael Connelly characterbookthinking What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. Michael Connelly importantsaid How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work. Michael Connelly parisstorieswriting You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. Michael Connelly threetwentieswriting 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. Michael Connelly usegivingfiction There is no client as scary as an innocent man. Michael Connelly innocent-manscarymen 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. Michael Connelly redemptionqualityart Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt. Michael Connelly ifs-andcolorjobs Everybody counts or nobody counts Michael Connelly Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case. Michael Connelly anchorsdreamrunning There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there. Michael Connelly moving-onheartbreakletting-go ...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character. Michael Connelly glimpsedesirecharacter I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses. Michael Connelly differentsometimesyears Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots. Michael Connelly fancyplotcharacter A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs. Michael Connelly tentsnewspaperscommunity I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. Michael Connelly movie-love
