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
highly novel personal readers reading
Reading a novel is a highly personal experience, and I think different readers will take different things from it.
connection fact ironic saves twins
It's 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.
knives world shade
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
defeat used wells
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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.
unhappy wanted ifs
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
mirrors stories ifs
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
two-sides stories remember
Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.