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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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