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

~William Landay

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

~William Landay

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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