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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Answered
Prayers
Knees
Prayer
Something
Undone

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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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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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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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