Quotes by Wally Lamb
- Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
- I love the most the students with troubled lives.
- 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.
- The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
- Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
- I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
- I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
- I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
- Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
- 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.
- Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
- When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
- As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
- I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
- In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.