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What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

From John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

From John Connolly

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

From John Connolly

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

From John Connolly

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

From John Connolly

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

From John Connolly

I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.

From John Connolly