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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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Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Undone
Breathing
Sweet
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about 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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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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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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 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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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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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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