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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Wally Lamb

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

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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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