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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Cried
Mets
Shoes
Feet
Men

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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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 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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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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