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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

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

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"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."

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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

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"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."

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"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."

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Amber Hurdle

"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

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"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention."

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"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."

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"I think the killers get far too much attention."

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"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."
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"I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read."
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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 love the most the students with troubled lives."
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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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"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."
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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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"Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write."
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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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"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."
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