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
mirrors stories ifs
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
destruction renovation
With destruction comes renovation.
dog foam rich
Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
grief silent
The greatest griefs are silent.
memories rivers understanding
The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
lying writing thinking
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
two-sides stories remember
Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
adventure what-if taste
What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
girl sorry cancer
Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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...
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.
needs dignity surrender
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
writing thinking needs
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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.