William Landay Quotes

I Love Sports, As All Bostonians Seem To. I Love Books And Movies, As All Writers Seem To.

I Don't Ever Write With A Particular Audience In Mind. I Just Write Books That Please Me.

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 Can't Say That I Ever Actually Decided To Become A Writer. It Kind Of Snuck Up On Me.

I'm A Bit Of A Tech Geek Myself.

I Am Interested In Computers And Technology, And Art, Photography, And Design.

At Some Point As Adults We Cease To Be Our Parents' Children And We Become Our Children's Parents Instead.

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 Novelist.

We Move Through Time Like A Man In A Rowboat, Looking Back Even As We Move Forward.

The Rest-the Vast Majority, Tens Of Thousands Of Days-are Unremarkable, Repetitive, Even Monotonous. We Glide Through Them Then Instantly Forget Them. We Tend Not To Think About This Arithmetic When We Look Back On Our Lives. We Remember The Handful Of Big Days And Throw Away The Rest. We Organize Our Long, Shapeless Lives Into Tidy Little Stories...but Our Lives Are Mostly Made Up Of Junk, Of Ordinary, Forgettable Days, And 'the End' Is Never The End.

Crime And Legal Stories, Broadly Speaking, Are Just Where My Interest Happens To Lie.

There Is No Absolute Beginning To Any Story, After All. There Is Only The Moment You Begin Watching.