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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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 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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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