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.
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I didn't know any schizophrenics. The most valuable information I got was from people with the disease and their family members.
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.
moon snakes skulls
I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
design may
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
drawing lions wave
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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.