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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
Shade
Hidden
Couldn
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Shades
Dead
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Undone
World
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Knives

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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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