I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

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• Michael Connelly:

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

• Michael Connelly:

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  I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Int

• Michael Connelly:

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• Michael Connelly:

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• Michael Connelly:

  I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a b

• Dannel Malloy:

  Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

• Dannel Malloy:

  I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off peopl