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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Drawings
Lions
Waves
Wave
Drawing
Early
Follow
Tidal
Humans
Warned

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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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