“I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm...” — Michael Connelly Quote

“I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.”

“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.”

“Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out to grab somebody, that's very attractive to me as a reader and, now, as a writer.”

“I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.”

“When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.”

“I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.”

“When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.”

“I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.”

“I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.”

“I've always been confident Davies can fulfil the role of left-back.”

“I'm very, very confident in my jiu-jitsu.”