Wally Lamb Quotes
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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