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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 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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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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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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 what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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