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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Stories
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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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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