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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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