Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Best
Different
Writing
Going
Way
Defies
Like
Planned
Surprised
Starts

More quotes by 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
Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
Wally Lamb
Image
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Wally Lamb
Image
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
Image
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 the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
Wally Lamb
Image
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
Wally Lamb
Image
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
Wally Lamb
Image
The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
Wally Lamb
Image
The greatest griefs are silent.
Wally Lamb
Image
Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
Wally Lamb
Image
Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
Wally Lamb
Image
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Wally Lamb
Image
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
Wally Lamb
Image
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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
Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
Wally Lamb