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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Stories
Hardship
Firsts
Midst
Human
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Humans
Caught
First
Behavior
Early
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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