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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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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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 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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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