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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
Humans
Warned
Drawings
Lions
Waves
Wave
Drawing
Early
Follow
Tidal

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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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