68 Quotes by William Landay

We both love him. I’m just saying, you can love your child and still see his flaws. You have to see his flaws, otherwise how can you help him?

Before, she had this way of focusing on whomever she spoke to, so that you felt you were the most impossibly captivating person in the room; now, her eyes wandered and she seemed not to be in the room herself.

Somewhere she had learned that if an interviewer remains silent, the interviewee will rush to fill the silence.

All they got locked up in this hole is my body. That’s all they got, my body, not me. I’m everywhere, see? Everywhere you look, junior, everywhere you go.

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

Studies have shown that fathers of murdered children often die within a few years of the murder, often of heart failure. Really, they die of grief.

Nobody gets to you without going through me – and nobody’s getting through me.

The truth is, the best win-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe. I think maybe something like that happens with kids. You see what you want to see.