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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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