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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Freedom
Woman
Need
Needs
Surrenders
Surrender
Dignity

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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 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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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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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 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 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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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