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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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First
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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