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The greatest griefs are silent.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Griefs
Grief
Silent
Greatest

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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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 stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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