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Wally Lamb

"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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Donna Grant

"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

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Donna Grant

"She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.It didn't."

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Donna Grant

"Where do you think they've gone?' he said.'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted.'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.''Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.''But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?'Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile.'Most people seem to manage,' she said.She reached across the table and touched his hand."

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Donna Grant

"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

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Donna Grant

"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

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Donna Grant

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

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Donna Grant

"A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves."

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Donna Grant

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

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Donna Grant

"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."

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Donna Grant

"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."

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Wally Lamb
"I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read."

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Wally Lamb
"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."

Fiction

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Wally Lamb
"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."

Writing

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Wally Lamb
"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."

Life

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Wally Lamb
"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."

Love

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Wally Lamb
"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."

Life

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Wally Lamb
"Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write."

Love

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Wally Lamb
"I love the most the students with troubled lives."

Love

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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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Wally Lamb
"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."

Love

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