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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Hate
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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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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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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