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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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 point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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