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I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Troubled
Students
Lives
Love

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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 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 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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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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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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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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 try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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