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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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