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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Story
Read
Stories
Wanted
Idolatry
Connect
Myth
Modern

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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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 won't read novels while writing 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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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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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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