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I love the most the students with troubled lives.

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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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