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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
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Myth
Modern
Story
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Stories
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Idolatry

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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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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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