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Wally Lamb is an American author known for his profound psychological portrayals and complex character development. His works often explore themes such as family, love, faith, and identity, and are highly appreciated by readers.

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Famous Wally Lamb Quotes

“I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice McDermott noted that the most difficult thing about becoming a writer was convincing herself that she had anything to say that people would want to read. "There's nothing to writing," the columnist Red Smith once commented. "All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

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Book:Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution

Source: Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution

“However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.”

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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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“I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.”

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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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“Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.”

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“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.”

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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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“I won't read novels while writing novels.”

Writing Novel

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“Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.”

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About the Author

Born: October 17, 1950
Known for: Author
Quotes: 79

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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional InstitutionRelated source material

The Hour I First BelievedRelated source material

The Hour I First Believed: A NovelRelated source material

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