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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Wally Lamb
Love
People
Accept
Drink
New Year's
Offer
Take
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
Girl
Never
Brother
Street
Baby
Cousins
Each Year
Named
Rocks
Sisters
Surrounded
Threw
Boy
Down
Each
Except
Happened
Just
Kid
Older
Who
Wish
Would
Year
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb
Words
Attention
Hardship
Pictures
Behavior
Caught
Human Behavior
Midst
No Words
Early
First
Human
Stories
Very
Were
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
Think
Way
Writing
Own
Albeit
Fiction Writers
Stray
Ultimately
Experiences
Far
Fiction
However
I Think
Lives
May
Mine
Need
Pretty
Some
Write
Writers
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb
Kid
Belong
Needed
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Wally Lamb
Me
Go
Follow
Waves
Drawings
Humans
Lions
Tidal
Warned
Early
Where
Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
Wally Lamb
Love
Want
Been
Able
Love Stories
Ever
Stories
Write
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Wally Lamb
Love
More
Far
Than
Crowd
Shapes
Sizes
Course
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
Wally Lamb
Life
May
Design
Beyond
Presence
Sign
Ourselves
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
Best
Me
Way
Like
Different Way
Planned
Starts
Surprised
Different
Going
Had
Than
Writing
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb
Story
Myth
Modern
Connect
Had
Read
Wanted
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb
Love
Most
Troubled
Students
I Love
Lives
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Wally Lamb
Character
Like
Writing
Become
First-Person
Because
Write
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb
Life
Opportunity
Think
Limits
Beyond
Fiction
Get
I Think
I Write
My Own
Own
Write
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