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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
Write
Stories
Find
Firsts
First
Draft
Mean
Especially
Writing
Story
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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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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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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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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 was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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 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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