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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
Going
Make
Appointment
Appointments
Everyday
Computer
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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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 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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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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