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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Lead
Lost
Character
Need
Sometimes
Needs
Expect
Places
Characters

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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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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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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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