Quotes by Wally Lamb

About Wally Lamb:

Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lamb

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

Wally Lamb

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Wally Lamb

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

Wally Lamb

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Wally Lamb

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

Wally Lamb

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

Wally Lamb

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Wally Lamb

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

Wally Lamb

My art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

Wally Lamb

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?

Wally Lamb

People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.

Wally Lamb

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Wally Lamb

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

Wally Lamb

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Wally Lamb

Author Bio

  • NameWally Lamb
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • BornOctober 17, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist