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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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Ideas
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Appointment
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Everyday

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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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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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