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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
Grows
Chance
Take
Like
Cultivate
Adventure
Taste
Grow

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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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