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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 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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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