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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
Undone
Answered
Prayers
Knees
Prayer
Something

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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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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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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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