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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
Enough

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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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 think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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 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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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