Quotes by Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn’t protect you from the truth.

Knives

Shade

World

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

Drawing

Lions

Wave

Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference

Differences

Enough

Smart

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we’re more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

Bowling

Connecticut

Different

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

Lying

Thinking

Writing

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman’s book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

Book

Rocks

Stars

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing – the first draft is torturous.

Creating

Firsts

Hardest

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.

Needs

Thinking

Writing

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

Attention

Hardship

Stories

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Feet

Men

Shoes

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Attention

Book

Bowling

Cancer

Character

Cities

Cnn

Connecticut

Connections

Creating

Defeat

Design

Devil

Differences

Different

Dog

Drawing

Enough

Facts

Fear

Feet

Firsts

Foam

Girl

Good Things

Grief

Happened

Hardest

Hardship

Hate

Heritage

I Hate

Ironic

Italian

Kids

Knees

Knives

Laughter

Lions

Looks

Lying

May

Mean

Memories

Men

Moon

Moving

Needed

Needs

Novel

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Quotes by Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn’t protect you from the truth.

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

Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we’re more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman’s book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing – the first draft is torturous.

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.

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

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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