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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
Differences
Change
Enough
Accept
Smart
Difference
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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