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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.

Wally Lamb

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

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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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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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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