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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.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Feelings
Married
Tuesdays
Tell
Lose
Colon
Something
Loses
Pork
Years
Pretty
Tuesday
Like
Wife
Forty
Stop
Cancer
Feeling
Sorry
Girl
Died

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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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 I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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