Quotes by William Landay

About William Landay:

William Landay is an American novelist.
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So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

William Landay

This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

William Landay

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

William Landay

With the minivan in the air, rolling counterclockwise, the engine racing, Laurie screaming -- a fraction of a second, that's all -- Jacob would have thought of me -- who had held him, my own baby, looked down into eyes -- and he would have understood...

William Landay

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

William Landay

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 just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can...

William Landay

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

William Landay

It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves...

William Landay

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

William Landay

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

William Landay

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

William Landay

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional n...

William Landay

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.

William Landay

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

William Landay

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

William Landay

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

William Landay

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

William Landay

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 gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

William Landay

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

William Landay

Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Landay
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist