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
prayer want knees
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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.
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.