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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Become
Used
Stare
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Staring
Live
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Book
Students
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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