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
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.
kids needed
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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.
drawing lions wave
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
stories modern myth
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
students
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
denial driven profit
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
mirrors stories ifs
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
grief silent
The greatest griefs are silent.
thinking blessing sorrow
But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...