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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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 walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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