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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Wally Lamb

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

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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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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.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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