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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Drink
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Take
Giving
People
Milkshakes

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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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