Michael Connelly : (4) " I write my books never thinking of an actor. " - Michael Connelly " I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. " - Michael Connelly " I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that’s part of the wonder of reading. " - Michael Connelly " When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, ‘I don’t want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,’ I was braced for, ‘That’s not gonna happen.’ But I didn’t get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad’s experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside. " - Michael Connelly