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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
Waste
Happiness
Happy
Everyone
Makes
People
Undone
Scared

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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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