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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
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Wanted
Idolatry
Connect
Myth
Modern
Story
Read
Stories

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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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