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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
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Stories

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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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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 you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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