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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Connections
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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 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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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