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Wally Lamb quotes about writing

American Author October 17, 1950

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Wally Lamb quote: "Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or..."
Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write. Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb quote: "I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the..."
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb quote: "I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me,..."
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
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. Wally Lamb
If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace. 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
Wally Lamb quote: "I like to write first-person because I like to become the..."
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. Wally Lamb

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