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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Modern
Story
Read
Stories
Wanted
Idolatry
Connect
Myth

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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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