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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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