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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Probably
Write
Stories
Able
Ever
Writing
Love

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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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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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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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