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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Cultivate
Adventure
Taste
Grow
Grows
Chance
Take

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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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