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

Wally Lamb

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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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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 work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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