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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Cried
Mets
Shoes
Feet
Men

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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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