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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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