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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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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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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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