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

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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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