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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
Every
Sides
Story
Two
Stories
Remember

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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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 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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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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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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