Wally Lamb Quotes: You’re just catching me during one of my…

You're just catching me during one of my fallow periods, that's all. One of my compost years. I'm expecting a creative leap pretty soon now.

("She's Come Undone")

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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.
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Eventually, I reached the other side of the chasm and understood the differences between the two men. I no longer hated Daddy: he had been a shitty father and a shitty husband - a man who's made two bad choices based on lust and coveting and then been too weak either to live with them or undo them. But he had not been a rapist.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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