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
book character pages
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
jobs airplane climbing
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
defeat used wells
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
reading book audience
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
knives world shade
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
journey want way
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
song sweet laughter
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?
smart differences enough
Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
country dog smart
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
sweet love-is breathing
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
men shoes feet
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
girl baby cousin
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.
fear good-things bad-things
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.