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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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 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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond 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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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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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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