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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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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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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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