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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Life
Roundness
Sign
Presence
Design
Beyond
May

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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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