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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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