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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
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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