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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.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Grow
Grows
Chance
Take
Like
Cultivate
Adventure
Taste

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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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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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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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