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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Hardest
Creating
Firsts
Nothing
First
Thing
Something
Torturous
Draft

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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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 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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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 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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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