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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
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Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Milkshakes
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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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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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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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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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