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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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 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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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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 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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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