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I love the most the students with troubled lives.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Troubled
Students
Lives
Love

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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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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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 write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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