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When I am so intensely involv...

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

Any writer would rather dig i...

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

As a bassist he could never r...

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

Los Angeles was the kind of p...

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 66 quotes

The setting sun burned the sk...

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 66 quotes

Las Vegas was like that. Ther...

Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

In the long run, all wrongs a...

In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

Well, did he do it?" She alwa...

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 66 quotes

You can fall in love and make...

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 66 quotes

How I work is that I write a ...

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 66 quotes

I would change very little be...

I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

The writing ethic was influen...

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

Money. The ultimate motivatio...

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

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

I'm a pretty harsh critic whe...

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

There is a means to every end...

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

Everybody counts or nobody co...

Everybody counts or nobody counts

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

When you're working on a nove...

When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But that's a huge consideration in film and TV.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

I'd be lying if I said the su...

I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

My whole reputation and creat...

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

I'd seen Titus Welliver in a ...

I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.

Michael Connelly 66 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....