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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
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Silent
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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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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 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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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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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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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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