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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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