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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
Wave
Drawing
Early
Follow
Tidal
Humans
Warned
Drawings
Lions
Waves

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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 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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 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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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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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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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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