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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
Destruction
Comes
Renovation

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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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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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 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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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