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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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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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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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