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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Accept
Smart
Difference
Accepting
Differences
Change
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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 like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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