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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
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Ideas
Going
Make
Appointment
Appointments
Everyday
Computer

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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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 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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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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 try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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