Citas de William Landay

• The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

  William Landay

  Clever, War, Teenager

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.211, Delacorte Press

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• Una emoción es un pensamiento, sí, una idea, pero también es una sensación, un dolor en el cuerpo. El deseo, el amor, el odio, el miedo, la repulsión... se sienten en los músculos y los huesos, no sólo en la mente.

  William Landay

  Hate, Ideas, Desire Love

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.209, Delacorte Press

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• Predisposition is not predestination.

  William Landay

  Predestinación

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.195, Delacorte Press

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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

  Simple, Important, Our Actions

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• 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.

  William Landay

  Book, People, World

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

  William Landay

  Knowing, Possessing, Possessed

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.125, Delacorte Press

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• Las buenas historias se basan en el conflicto, la tensión y lo que está en juego.

  William Landay

  Stories, Conflict, Driven

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• Tener confianza no es lo mismo que tener razón.

  William Landay

  Be Confident, Knows

  "Defending Jacob: A Novel". Book by William Landay, 2012.

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

  William Landay

  Beautiful, Way, Attractive

  "Mission Flats: A Novel". Book by William Landay, 2003.

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Ignored

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• Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

  William Landay

  Daños

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• Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

  William Landay

  Long, Trying, Faster

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• the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

  William Landay

  Mind, Guilt, Doe

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.129, Delacorte Press

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• There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

  William Landay

  Stories, Moments, Absolutes

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• Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

  William Landay

  Lying, Stories, Crime

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• 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.

  William Landay

  Thinking, Long, Looks

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press

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• We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

  William Landay

  Moving, Men, Rough Times

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• 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 novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

  William Landay

  Escribir, Mente, Intentar

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• At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

  William Landay

  Children, Parent, Adults

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.71, Delacorte Press

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• I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

  William Landay

  Photography, Art, Technology

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• Yo también soy un poco friki de la tecnología.

  William Landay

  Geek, Bits

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

  William Landay

  Kind, Decided, I Can

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• 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

  Writing, Personality, Imagine

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• I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

  William Landay

  Book, Writing, Please Me

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• I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

  William Landay

  Sports, Book, Bostonians

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