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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
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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 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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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