William Landay Quotes
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.
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.
no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you
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.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.
I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.
So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.
