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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Difference
Accepting
Differences
Change
Enough
Accept
Smart

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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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