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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Stories
Hardship
Firsts
Midst
Human
Pictures
Humans
Caught
First
Behavior
Early
Attention
Words

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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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