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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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