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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Journey
Wants
Find
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Needs
Seeker
Way
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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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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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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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 thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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