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
writing opportunity thinking
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
thinking waiting secret
I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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.
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...
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.
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.
american-author drink people
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
american-author disease family information people valuable
I didn't know any schizophrenics. The most valuable information I got was from people with the disease and their family members.
albeit american-author far fiction however lives stray writers
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.
fear good-things bad-things
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
stories modern myth
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
students
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
design may
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.