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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Belong
Needed
Kids

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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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