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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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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