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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Sweet
Take
Love
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Undone
Breathing

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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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 roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 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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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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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 evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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