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With destruction comes renovation.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Comes
Renovation
Destruction

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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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