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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Ended
Wherever
Unhappy
Took
Wanted
Love
Risked
Repressed

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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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 try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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