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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
Firsts
Nothing
First
Thing
Something
Torturous
Draft
Hardest
Creating

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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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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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 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 is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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 think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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