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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Makes
People
Undone
Scared
Waste
Happiness
Happy
Everyone

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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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 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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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