"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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Source : Wally Lamb (2009). “The Hour I First Believed”, p.16, Harper Collins

Wally Lamb

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“The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.”
“I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.”
“I don't have a definition of God, because I've never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it's caused a great deal of conflict. If I had to say what would my definition of God be, if I were going to use that word, I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours.”

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“To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.”
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
“The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.”
“Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.”
“Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.”

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