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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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Become
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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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