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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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