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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Needed
Kids
Belong

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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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