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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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 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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 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 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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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 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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