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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Breathing
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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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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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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