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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
Presence
Design
Beyond
May
Life
Roundness
Sign

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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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