The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.
Michael ConnellyLos 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...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 ConnellyThe philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
Michael Connelly