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Michael Koryta

"In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes."

Source : "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

Michael Koryta

#Running Quotes #Character Quotes #Long Quotes

“When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.”
“When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.”
“Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.”
“The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day”
“Before I die, I want to fight for life.”
“bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.”
“Iâ€™ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. Iâ€™ll wait until you think Iâ€™ve forgotten today. Iâ€™ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild ratâ€™s threat. After Iâ€™m a master, youâ€™ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and Iâ€™m not there, you wonâ€™t jump just once, and thatâ€™s when Iâ€™ll be there. I donâ€™t care if you kill me at the same time. Iâ€™ll trade my life for yours.”
“I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.”

Source : Armistead Maupin (2012). “Tales Of The City: Tales of the City 1”, p.223, Random House

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