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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
Grow
Grows
Chance
Take
Like
Cultivate
Adventure
Taste

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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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 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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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