68 Quotes by William Landay

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

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

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

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

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.

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

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.

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

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