William Landay Quotes

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• We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
• There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.
• Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
• Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
• I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
• I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.
• I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
• I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
• I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.
• Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
• You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
• Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex…
• Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
• When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a…
• The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
• At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
• 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 they do. You…
• no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
• An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion -…
• Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

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