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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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