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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Nothing
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Torturous
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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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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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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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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