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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
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Truth
Undone
World
Pulled
Knives
Shade
Hidden
Couldn
Protect
Shades
Dead
Bolts

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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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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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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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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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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 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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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