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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
Become
Used
Stare
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Staring
Live
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Book
Students
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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