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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
Renovation
Destruction
Comes

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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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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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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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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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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 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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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