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.
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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.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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.
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.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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.