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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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