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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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 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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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