Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
Wally LambI 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 LambLove grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
Wally LambI like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
Wally LambEastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
Wally LambPeople waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
Wally LambLet 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 LambI am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
Wally Lamb