Wally Lamb Quotes

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Wally Lamb

New Year's, Love, Accept

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb

Human, Words, Attention

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.
Wally Lamb

Writing, May, Pretty

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Wally Lamb

Early, Follow, Humans

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
Wally Lamb

Best, Writing, Different

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Wally Lamb

Character, Writing, Become

I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb

Love, Lives, Students

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb

Life, Write, Beyond

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb

Wanted, Read, Story

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Wally Lamb

Love, Far, Crowd

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
Wally Lamb

Love, Able, Write

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
Wally Lamb

Life, Design, May

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb

Girl, Down, Wish

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb

Kid, Needed, Belong

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