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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Everyday
Computer
Idea
Ideas
Going
Make
Appointment
Appointments

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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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 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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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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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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 the most the students with troubled lives.
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