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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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 seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 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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