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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Myth
Modern
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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 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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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