I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read. Wally Lamb More Quotes by Wally Lamb More Quotes From Wally Lamb The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. Wally Lamb god-existsevidenceevidence-of-god I love the most the students with troubled lives. Wally Lamb students Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself. Wally Lamb cancergirlsorry I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves. Wally Lamb too-muchtryingmoving Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat. Wally Lamb seatschairslife-is I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love. Wally Lamb i-hatesituationhate I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages. Wally Lamb cnndevilcities I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt. Wally Lamb it-hurtsdeeperhurt With destruction comes renovation. Wally Lamb renovationdestruction The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness. Wally Lamb understandingriversmemories But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here... Wally Lamb sorrowblessingthinking But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? Wally Lamb mirrorsifsstories 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 writingtryingmean What if I don’t like adventure? Wally Lamb what-iftasteadventure Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that. Wally Lamb two-sidesstoriesremember Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write. Wally Lamb storieswantwriting I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading. Wally Lamb hard-workreadingthinking I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy. Wally Lamb secretwaitingthinking If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy. Wally Lamb repressedunhappywanted Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course. Wally Lamb crowdsshapeslove
