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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
Happy
Everyone
Makes
People
Undone
Scared
Waste
Happiness

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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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