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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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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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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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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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 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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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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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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 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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