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With destruction comes renovation.
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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Destruction
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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.
Wally Lamb
I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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