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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Connecticut
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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