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

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

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