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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
Love
Probably
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Stories
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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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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