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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Shade
Hidden
Couldn
Protect
Shades
Dead
Bolts
Truth
Undone
World
Pulled
Knives

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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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