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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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