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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
Good
Dogs
Things
Forgiveness
Love
Exists
Dog
Evidence
Grows
Mongrels
Rich
Roundness
Make
Foam

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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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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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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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