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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Fears
Mirrors
Hold
Stories

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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 point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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 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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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