Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Wally Lamb

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
Wally Lamb

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

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.
Wally Lamb