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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Take
Giving
People
Milkshakes
Drink
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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 stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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 stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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