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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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 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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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