I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“So I got my stuff and the girl at the register puts these other things in my bag, too. Little free samples: gum and… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.' His head tilted questioningly, birdlike. A sidekick?” — Wally Lamb Copy Share
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“What I remembered about those seesaw rides was the way Thomas would get mad at me, midride, and evacuate. Send me crashing back down… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share
![“[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense…” quote by Wally Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee2/wally-lamb-1817_dead-end_writing-about-themselves-gives-them-wing_1921724.jpg)
