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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
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Story
Two
Stories
Remember
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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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