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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Randomness
Denial
Profit
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Religion
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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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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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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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