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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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