Wally Lamb Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

• 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

  Writing, Different, Way

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

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Character, Firsts

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Opportunity, Thinking

• Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

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  Lying, Writing, Thinking

• I 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.

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  Girl, Writing, Voice

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• I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Mean, Trying

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• Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Stories, Want

• I won't read novels while writing novels.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Novel

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