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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Fiction
Opportunity
Write
Writing
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Thinking
Life
Limits
Beyond

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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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