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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
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Stories
Fears
Mirrors

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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 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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 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.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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