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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 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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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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 think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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