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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 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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 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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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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