Quote

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

Wally Lamb

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Human
Pictures
Humans
Caught
First
Behavior
Early
Attention
Words
Stories
Hardship
Firsts
Midst

More quotes by Wally Lamb

Image
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
Wally Lamb
Image
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
Wally Lamb
Image
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
Wally Lamb
Image
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb
Image
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.
Wally Lamb
Image
I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
Wally Lamb
Image
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
Wally Lamb
Image
Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
Wally Lamb
Image
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
Wally Lamb
Image
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
Wally Lamb
Image
I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
Wally Lamb
Image
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
Wally Lamb
Image
Connecticut is in my blood.
Wally Lamb
Image
With destruction comes renovation.
Wally Lamb
Image
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
Wally Lamb
Image
What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
Wally Lamb
Image
The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
Wally Lamb
Image
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
Wally Lamb
Image
Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
Wally Lamb
Image
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
Wally Lamb