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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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