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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Stories
Fears
Mirrors

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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 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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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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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 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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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