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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
Something
Undone
Answered
Prayers
Knees
Prayer

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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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