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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Something
Undone
Answered
Prayers
Knees
Prayer

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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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