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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
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Norwich
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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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