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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Work
Relate
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Accept
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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