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The greatest griefs are silent.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Griefs
Grief
Silent
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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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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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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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