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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
Smart
Difference
Accepting
Differences
Change
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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 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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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