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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
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Undone
Answered
Prayers
Knees
Prayer

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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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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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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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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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