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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- William Landay