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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Situation
Learn
Hate
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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