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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
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Stories
Able
Ever
Writing
Love
Probably

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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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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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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 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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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