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The greatest griefs are silent.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Griefs
Grief
Silent
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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 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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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