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I won't read novels while writing novels.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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 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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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