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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Love
Risked
Repressed
Ended
Wherever
Unhappy
Took
Wanted

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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 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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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 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 you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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