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Wally Lamb Inspirational Quotes (62)

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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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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...
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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.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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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.
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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.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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