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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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 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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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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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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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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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 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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