All William Landay Quotes
- We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward. Back Even
- There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching. Absolute
- Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. Broadly
- Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. Conflict
- I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. Art
- I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me. Actually Decided
- I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me. Audience
- I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. All
- I'm a bit of a tech geek myself. Bit
- Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster. Fanatically
- You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. Appreciated
- 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… Action
- 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. Careful
- When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a… Assistant
- The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. Clever
- At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. Adults
- 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… Accept
- no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed Funny
- An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion -… Ache
- Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you All
- the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty. Act
- Predisposition is not predestination. Funny