Michael Connelly Quotes

Even before I was in New York, I couldn't even count how many places I lived in L.A. Definitely over 10.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

We moved around a ton when I was a kid. I think we lived in 9 different houses before I was 15 - we moved from the city back to the suburbs; different suburbs, different houses, all over the place.

I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

Everyone in New York wants to move to London, and everyone in London wants to live in New York. A few people want to live in L.A., but I'll never understand that. It's too much for me.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

I have worked in so many countries over the years that I must have moved house about 20 times.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

I left Detroit in 2007, worked on a cruise ship for a year, moved to Chicago in '08, then moved to L.A. in February 2012.

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.

I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.

I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car.

I'm an army brat - so I grew up traveling every two to four years.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.