Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

William Landay's Popular Quotes

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. Y…

- William Landay

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

- William Landay

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…

- William Landay

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 …

- William Landay

There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.

- William Landay

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

- William Landay

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

- William Landay

Predisposition is not predestination.

- William Landay

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

- William Landay