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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Fiction
Strange
Lying
Weave
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Explore
Think
Truths
Thinking
Deeper

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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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'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 was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 greatest griefs are silent.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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