William Landay
William Landay
William Landayis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
William Landay quotes about
simple important our-actions
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.
book writing ignored
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
long trying faster
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
geek bits
I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.
sports book bostonians
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
book writing please-me
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
book people world
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.
beautiful way attractive
There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.
clever teenager stupid
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
thinking long junk
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.
hate ideas desire-love
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.
lying stories crime
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.