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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Situations
Usually
Ones
Situation
Learn
Hate
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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 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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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