Wally Lamb Quotes

Wally Lamb — American Author

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... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.

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

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