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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
Draft
Hardest
Creating
Firsts
Nothing
First
Thing
Something
Torturous

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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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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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