"I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books."

-- Michael Connelly

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Past Quotes

“There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.”
“We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.”
“The best path between two points is upside-down, between, then inside-out and round again.”
“When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.”
“When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.”
“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”
“I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.”
“If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.”

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