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Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.
— William Landay
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
— William Landay
There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.
— William Landay
A liberal, it turns out, is a conservative who's been indicted.
— William Landay
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
— William Landay
I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.
— William Landay
We're not arguing. We're discussing." "You're a lawyer; you don't know the difference. I'm arguing.
— William Landay
A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.
— William Landay
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.
— William Landay
Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.
— William Landay
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
— William Landay
A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances.
— 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 had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned, even at this late date.
— William Landay
Predisposition is not predestination.
— William Landay
Free will is as important to the law as it is to religion or any other code of morality. We do not punish the leopard for its wildness.
— 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 are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.
— William Landay
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
— William Landay
you ever do it?" "It's a talent
— William Landay
One worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed - but after all, we were children.
— William Landay
A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk.
— William Landay
Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you - and it will find you
— William Landay
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
— William Landay
We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
— William Landay
Somewhere she had learned that if an interviewer remains silent, the interviewee will rush to fill the silence.
— William Landay
Of course, that sort of dramatic email is
— William Landay
It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.
— William Landay
I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.
— William Landay
So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.
— William Landay
No one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
— William Landay