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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 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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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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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