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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Randomness
Denial
Profit
Driven
Religion
Wells
Well
Oiled

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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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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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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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