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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
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Probably
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Stories
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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