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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Waves
Wave
Drawing
Early
Follow
Tidal
Humans
Warned
Drawings
Lions

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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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 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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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