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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Kids
Belong
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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