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I won't read novels while writing novels.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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