Wally Lamb Quotes

I think we all want to fit in at a young age.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

If you don't believe you don't belong.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.

I think the reason why people loved 'Jem' in the '80s was because it kind of gave them this story of a place to fit in. It's about finding your place.

My entire life goal was to be accepted by everyone. I think that's what I wanted the most. I never got it.

Everybody is different; as long as you look like you belong and you can fit in, the world is you oyster now.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

It took me a long time to blossom. Everyone else understood how to socialize and how to look. I didn't get the memo.

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe.

An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from.

Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.