Quote

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.

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
Feeling
Sorry
Girl
Died
Feelings
Married
Tuesdays
Tell
Lose
Colon
Something
Loses
Pork
Years
Pretty
Tuesday
Like
Wife
Forty
Stop
Cancer

More quotes by Wally Lamb

Image
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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
Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
Wally Lamb
Image
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb
Image
Connecticut is in my blood.
Wally Lamb
Image
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Wally Lamb
Image
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb
Image
I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
Wally Lamb
Image
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
Wally Lamb
Image
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Wally Lamb
Image
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Wally Lamb
Image
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb
Image
The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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
I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
Wally Lamb
Image
With destruction comes renovation.
Wally Lamb
Image
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
Wally Lamb
Image
I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
Wally Lamb
Image
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
Image
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
Wally Lamb