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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
Milkshakes
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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 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 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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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