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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
Undone
Answered
Prayers
Knees
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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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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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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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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