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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Love
Probably
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Stories
Able
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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 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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 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 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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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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