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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.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Life
Waiting
Wishing
Happy
Settle
Wish
Settling
Might
Shape
Make
Shapes
Always
Instead
Think
Takes
Thinking
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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