Michael Connelly

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ("The Castle") ↗

— Michael Connelly

#writing #writing-craft #perseverance

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

— Michael Connelly

#observation #reality #truth #music

There is no client as scary as an innocent man." J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#clients #criminal-law #fear #guilt #innocence

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? ↗

— Michael Connelly

#jealousy #jealousy

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#evil #hearts #lights #psychology #psychopaths

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#materialism #money #success #wealth #money

there is a light that never goes out ↗

— Michael Connelly

#inspirational

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#i love #influenced #love #me #movies

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#love #inspirational

I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#enough #i #miss #never