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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
Idolatry
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Myth
Modern
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Stories
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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 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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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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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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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