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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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 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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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