Wally Lamb
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 October 1950
CountryUnited States of America
ironic facts connections
Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
writing want able
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
unhappy wanted ifs
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
family-love crowds size
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
life-is chairs seats
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
stories hardship firsts
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
writing opportunity thinking
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
kids needed
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
evidence-of-god evidence god-exists
The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
giving people drink
Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
thinking waiting secret
I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
cities cnn devil
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.
stars book rocks
First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
people waste scared
People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.