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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Write
Become
Character
Persons
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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 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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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