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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Story
Two
Stories
Remember
Every
Sides

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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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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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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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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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