"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 ConnellyRenowned author Michael Connelly is well-known for his crime novels that feature detective Harry Bosch. He related a personal story in one interview about his decision to pursue a career in writing instead of engineering. There were a number of difficulties and unknowns associated with this choice. …