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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
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Going
Make
Appointment
Appointments
Everyday
Computer
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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 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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 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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