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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
Author
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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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 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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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