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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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