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Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
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
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
William Landay
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
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
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
William Landay
I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.
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
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
William Landay
The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
William Landay
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.
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't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.
William Landay
There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.
William Landay
the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.
William Landay
There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.
William Landay
We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
William Landay
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
William Landay