191 Quotes by Wally Lamb

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself.

If a book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

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.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.