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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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