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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Journey
Wants
Find
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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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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 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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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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