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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
Something
Torturous
Draft
Hardest
Creating
Firsts
Nothing
First
Thing

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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 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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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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