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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Rich
Roundness
Make
Foam
Good
Dogs
Things
Forgiveness
Love
Exists
Dog
Evidence
Grows
Mongrels

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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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 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 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 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 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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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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