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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
Stories
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Firsts
First
Draft
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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