Michael Connelly Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Michael Connelly quotes and sayings page 2 (author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 28 we have for him.
“I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.”
“Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.”
“We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.”
“That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.”
“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.”
“Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.”
“I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.”
“I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.”
“The characters I write about are very internal.”
“I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.”
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