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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Fiction
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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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