Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. — William Landay Conflict Copy Share Image
There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful. — William Landay Attractive Copy Share Image
You know, being confident isn't the same as being right. — William Landay Be confident Copy Share Image
“Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance and magical thinking,” — William Landay Blind Copy Share Image
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. — William Landay Crime Copy Share Image
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. — William Landay Clever Copy Share Image
“But things were racing too fast to linger over the past or future. There was only now.” — William Landay Past future Copy Share Image
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. — William Landay Art Copy Share Image
“I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-” — William Landay Copy Share Image
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. — William Landay Book Copy Share Image
“We’re not arguing. We’re discussing.” “You’re a lawyer; you don’t know the difference. I’m arguing.” — William Landay Arguing Copy Share Image
“both remembered how it all started, and even now, in the middle of my middle age, when I think of that shining… — William Landay First love Copy Share Image
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result… — William Landay Action Copy Share Image
“I had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned,… — William Landay Hope Copy Share Image
“Free will is as important to the law as it is to religion or any other code of morality. We do not… — William Landay Morality Copy Share Image
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my… — William Landay Careful Copy Share Image
“Parents of murdered children have it worst, and to me the fathers have it even worse than the mothers because they are… — William Landay Children Copy Share Image
“I used to wonder what it would be like if a magical amnesia descended and erased my mind completely, leaving only a… — William Landay Psychology Copy Share Image
“The iPod was a leak. It was a danger. I brought it down to the basement and laid it on my little… — William Landay Leak Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try… — William Landay Assistants Copy Share Image
“In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really… — William Landay Big day Copy Share Image
But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what… — William Landay Accepting Copy Share Image
“Every father knows the disconcerting when you see your child as a weird, distorted double of yourself. It is as if for… — William Landay Children Copy Share Image
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We… — William Landay Arithmetic Copy Share Image
“Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked… — William Landay Babe ruth Copy Share Image
“But then, we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. The money man tells himself that by getting rich he is actually enriching… — William Landay Art Copy Share Image
“The towering lie of the criminal justice system—that we can reliably determine the truth, that we can know “beyond a reasonable doubt”… — William Landay Criminal justice Copy Share Image
“The leopard in the zoo wanders to the edge of his pen and, through the bars or across an unjumpable moat, he… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth.… — William Landay Jury Copy Share Image
“stupid things. The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever; this was just a case of… — William Landay God knows Copy Share Image
“A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it.” — William Landay Good marriage Copy Share Image
“Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.” — William Landay Copy Share Image
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. — William Landay Adults Copy Share Image
“We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.” — William Landay Animals Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.” — William Landay Last resort Copy Share Image
