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Wally Lamb

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

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"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."

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"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."

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Amber Hurdle

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

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Amber Hurdle

"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span."

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Amber Hurdle

"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."

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Amber Hurdle

"A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them."

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Amber Hurdle

"The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on."

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"I love the most the students with troubled lives."
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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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"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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"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."
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