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I won't read novels while writing novels.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Novels
Novel
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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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 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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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