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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Cried
Mets
Shoes
Feet
Men

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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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