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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
Fears
Mirrors
Hold
Stories

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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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 stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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