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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Roundness
Exists
Evidence
Things

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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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 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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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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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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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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