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The greatest griefs are silent.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Griefs
Grief
Silent
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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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 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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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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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