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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Human
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Humans
Caught
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Early
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Hardship

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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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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