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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Cried
Mets
Shoes
Feet
Men

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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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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 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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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