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Wally Lamb

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


— Wally Lamb


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


— Wally Lamb


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


— Wally Lamb


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


— Wally Lamb


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


— Wally Lamb


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I love the most the students with troubled lives.


— Wally Lamb


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


— Wally Lamb


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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


#defies #different #different way #going #had

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


— Wally Lamb


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


— Wally Lamb


#i #kid #needed






About Wally Lamb






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Among these he mentions painters Edward Hopper and Rene Magritte. A. He credits his perennial teaching of certain novels to high school students with teaching him about "the scaffolding" of longer stories.

Wally Lamb (born October 17 1950) 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.

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