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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Connecticut
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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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 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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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