Wally Lamb Quotes About Writing
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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 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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