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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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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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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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 what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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