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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
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Norwich
Connecticut
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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