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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
Troubled
Students
Lives
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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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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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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