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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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