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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Lost
Character
Need
Sometimes
Needs
Expect
Places
Characters

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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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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 is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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 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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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